The archived web : doing history in the digital age / Niels Brügger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brügger, Niels, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web archives--Social aspects.

Web archives.

World Wide Web--History.

World Wide Web.

History.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 185 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"How will the history of the present be written? As life continues to move online, the web becomes ever more important for an understanding of the past. This book offers an original theoretical framework for approaching the web of the past, both as a source and as an object of study in its own right"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Doing Web History in the Digital Age p. 11

2 The Digital and the Web p. 17

3 Five Analytical Web Strata p. 31

4 Cases of Web History p. 41

5 Archiving the Web p. 73

6 The Web of the Past-Where to Find What? p. 91

7 The Web of the Past as a Historical Source p. 103

8 Scholarly Use of the Archived Web p. 119

9 Toward a Source Criticism of the Archived Web p. 137

10 On the Edge of the Web p. 149

11 Conclusion-the Future of Web History p. 155.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262350112

0262350114

OCLC:

1062395353

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.