[ecrea] Publication: The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to readers of this list: The Web as 
History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present, 
edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder.  Download free: 
https://goo.gl/cZsTF8

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

Edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder

Download free: https://goo.gl/cZsTF8

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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 - as well as an 
introduction that provides an overview of this exciting new area of 
research.

Download free: https://goo.gl/cZsTF8

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ToC

Introduction: The Web as History
Ralph Schroeder and Niels Brügger

PART ONE THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF WEB DOMAINS

1. Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities 
on the web
Eric T. Meyer, Taha Yasseri, Scott A. Hale, Josh Cowls, Ralph Schroeder 
and Helen Margetts

2. Live versus archive: Comparing a web archive to a population of web pages
Scott A. Hale, Grant Blank and Victoria D. Alexander

3. Exploring the domain names of the Danish web
Niels Brügger, Ditte Laursen and Janne Nielsen

PART TWO MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT

4. The tumultuous history of news on the web
Matthew S. Weber

5. International hyperlinks in online news media
Josh Cowls and Jonathan Bright

6. From far away to a click away: The French state and public services 
in the 1990s
Valérie Schafer

PART THREE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORIES

7. Welcome to the web: The online community of GeoCities during the 
early years of the World Wide Web
Ian Milligan

8. Using the web to examine the evolution of the abortion debate in 
Australia, 2005–2015
Robert Ackland and Ann Evans

9. Religious discourse in the archived web: Rowan Williams, Archbishop 
of Canterbury, and the sharia law controversy of 2008
Peter Webster

10. ‘Taqwacore is Dead. Long Live Taqwacore’ or punk’s not dead?: 
Studying the online evolution of the Islamic punk scene
Meghan Dougherty

11. Cultures of the UK web
Josh Cowls

12. Coda: Web archives for humanities research – some reflections
Jane Winters

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