Web As History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present

Brügger, Niels (Editor) / Schroeder, Professor Ralph (Editor)

ISBN 10: 191130755X / ISBN 13: 9781911307556

Published by UCL Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Web As History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present
• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191130755X
• ISBN 13: 9781911307556
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.6 kilograms

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Synopsis

The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today’s principal source of information, entertainment and much else, the Web is an integral part of our daily lives, to the extent that some people believe ‘if it’s not online, it doesn’t exist.’ While this statement is not entirely true, it is becoming increasingly accurate, and reflects the Web’s role as an indispensable treasure trove. It is curious, therefore, that historians and social scientists have thus far made little use of the Web to investigate historical patterns of culture and society, despite making good use of letters, novels, newspapers, radio and television programmes, and other pre-digital artefacts. This volume argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles – through histories of national web spaces and case studies of different government and media domains – as well as an introduction that provides an overview of this exciting new area of research.

About the Author

The Editor: Niels Brügger is Associate Professor at The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. His primary research interest is website history, and in 2007 he started writing a history of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's website entitled The History of dr.dk, 1996-2006. He has published a number of articles, monographs, and edited books, including Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies (2005) and Media History: Theories, Methods, Analysis (ed. with S. Kolstrup, 2002).