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

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

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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 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front-Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. List of contributors
  10. Introduction: The web as history
  11. Part one The size and shape of web domains
  12. Part two Media and government
  13. Part three Cultural and political histories
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. Back-Cover