The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191130755X ISBN 13: 9781911307556

Publisher: UCL Press, 2017

Synopsis

This fascinating volume argues that now is the time to ask 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 overview of this exciting new area of research.

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About the Authors

Niels Brügger is Professor and Head of the Centre for Internet Studies and of the internet research infrastructure NetLab, Aarhus University. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the international journal, Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society. Recent publications include Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web (edited with Burns, 2012), and Web25, a themed issue of New Media & Society.

Ralph Schroeder is a Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Before coming to Oxford University, he was Professor at Chalmers University in Gothenburg. His recent books are Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change (2007) and, co-authored with Eric T. Meyer, Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities (2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191130755X
• ISBN 13: 9781911307556
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Brügger Niels, Schroeder Ralph