[WebCultures] New book: 'The Archived Web: Doing History in the Digital Age'

[Niels Brügger]

A bit of self-promotion:

If studying the archived web you may be interested in knowing that my book 'The Archived Web: Doing History in the Digital Age’ (MIT Press, 185 p.) has just been published today. Here’s the blurb:


"An original methodological framework for approaching the archived web, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right.

As life continues to move online, the web becomes increasingly important as a source for understanding the past. But historians have yet to formulate a methodology for approaching the archived web as a source of study. How should the history of the present be written? In this book, Niels Brügger offers an original methodological framework for approaching the web of the past, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right.

While many studies of the web focus solely on its use and users, Brügger approaches the archived web as a semiotic, textual system in order to offer the first book-length treatment of its scholarly use. While the various forms of the archived web can challenge researchers' interactions with it, they also present a range of possibilities for interpretation. The Archived Web identifies characteristics of the online web that are significant now for scholars, investigates how the online web became the archived web, and explores how the particular digitality of the archived web can affect a historian's research process. Brügger offers suggestions for how to translate traditional historiographic methods for the study of the archived web, focusing on provenance, creating an overview of the archived material, evaluating versions, and citing the material. The Archived Web lay s the foundations for doing web history in the digital age, offering important and timely guidance for today's media scholars and tomorrow's historians."

Read more at the publishers website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/archived-web

Best,

Niels Brügger



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LATEST PUBLICATIONS (selection)
Web Archiving. In P. Moy (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0213
A brief outline of temporalities of the web: Online and in web archives. In V. Schafer (ed.), Temps et temporalités du web (pp. 57-74). Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. 2018.
Web history and social media. In J. Burgess, A. Marwick, T. Poell (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media (pp. 196-212). London: Sage. 2018.

Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web (Ed. N. Brügger). New York : Peter Lang, 2017. 257 p.
Read more: https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/80641?rskey=tRbcn4&result=4

The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present (eds. N. Brügger, R. Schroeder). London: UCL Press, 2017
Download FREE copy: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-web-as-history

Probing a nation’s web domain: A new approach to web history and a new kind of historical source. In G. Goggin, M. McLelland (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (pp. 61-73). New York/Abingdon: Routledge 2017.

Digital Humanities in the 21st Century: Digital Material as a Driving Force, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 10(3), 2016
Read article: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/3/000256/000256.html

A brief history of Facebook as a media text: The development of an empty structure, First Monday, 20(5), 2015
Read article: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5423


NIELS BRÜGGER, Professor (MSO, with special responsibilities), PhD
Head of the Centre for Internet Studies, and of NetLab
School of Communication and Culture
Aarhus University
Helsingforsgade 14, building 5348, room 239
8200 Aarhus N
Denmark

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The Centre for Internet Studies, http://cfi.au.dk
NetLab, http://netlab.dk
RESAW, a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Material, http://resaw.eu

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