The Archived Web: Doing History in the Digital Age - Couverture souple

Brügger, Niels

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262549719 ISBN 13 : 9780262549714

Editeur : MIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

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 lays the foundations for doing web history in the digital age, offering important and timely guidance for today's media scholars and tomorrow's historians.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Niels Brügger is e Professor and Head of the Centre for Internet Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Head of NetLab.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262549719
• ISBN 13: 9780262549714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 198
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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