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oapen-20.500.12657-456652023-06-05T13:08:56Z The Web as History Schroeder, Ralph Brügger, Niels world wide web digital humanities archive communication media and communications Blog Domain name Hyperlink Internet Archive Web archiving Yahoo! GeoCities bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library & information sciences::GLC Library, archive & information management bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UB Information technology: general issues::UBW Internet: general works 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 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 introduction that provides an overview of this exciting new area of research. 2017-03-13 23:55 2020-01-09 14:36:09 2020-04-01T13:47:25Z 2020-04-01T13:47:25Z 2017 book 625483 OCN: 993127498 9781911307563 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45665 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 625483.pdf https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/the-web-as-history UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781911307563 100291 10.14324/111.9781911307563 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781911307563 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 296 London 100291 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection 625768 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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 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 introduction that provides an overview of this exciting new area of research.
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