Internet Histories - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138570427 ISBN 13: 9781138570429

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

In 2017, the new journal Internet Histories was founded. As part of the process of defining a new field, the journal editors approached leading scholars in this dynamic, interdisciplinary area. This book is thus a collection of eighteen short thought-provoking pieces, inviting discussion about Internet histories. They raise and suggest current and future issues in the scholarship, as well as exploring the challenges, opportunities, and tensions that underpin the research terrain. The book explores cultural, political, social, economic, and industrial dynamics, all part of a distinctive historiographical and theoretical approach which underpins this emerging field.

The international specialists reflect upon the scholarly scene, laying out the field’s research successes to date, as well as suggest the future possibilities that lie ahead in the field of Internet histories. While the emphasis is on researcher perspectives, interviews with leading luminaries of the Internet’s development are also provided. As histories of the Internet become increasingly important, Internet Histories is a useful roadmap for those contemplating how we can write such works. One cannot write many histories of the 1990s or later without thinking of digital media – and we hope that Internet Histories will be an invaluable resource for such studies. This book was originally published as the first issue of the Internet Histories journal.

About this title

About the Author:

Niels Brügger is Professor of Internet Studies and Digital Humanities at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Ian Milligan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Valérie Schafer is a Historian at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138570427
• ISBN 13: 9781138570429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Brügger Niels, Goggin Gerard, Milligan Ian, Schafer Valérie