The SAGE Handbook Of Web History

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The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part of our social, cultural and political lives, ‘new media’ is simply not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding archives of information at our disposal, and the recent growth of interest in web history as a field of research, the information available to us still far outstrips our understanding of how to interpret it. The SAGE Handbook of Web History marks the first comprehensive review of this subject to date. Its editors emphasise two main different forms of study: the use of the web as an historical resource, and the web as an object of study in its own right. Bringing together all the existing knowledge of the field, with an interdisciplinary focus and an international scope, this is an incomparable resource for researchers and students alike. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 Title - Complete......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 List of Figures and Box......Page 10 List of Tables......Page 15 Notes on the Editors and Contributors......Page 16 Foreword The Web as Counterpart......Page 26 Introduction......Page 29 Part I: The Web and Historiography......Page 40 1 Historiography and the Web......Page 42 2 Understanding the Archived Web as a Historical Source......Page 55 3 Existing Web Archives......Page 69 4 Periodizing Web Archiving: Biographical, Event-Based, National and Autobiographical Traditions......Page 81 Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections......Page 96 5 Web History in Context......Page 98 6 Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Web History......Page 112 7 Theorizing the Uses of the Web......Page 125 8 Ethical Considerations for Web Archives and Web History Research......Page 138 9 Collecting Primary Sources from Web Archives: A Tale of Scarcity and Abundance......Page 151 10 Network Analysis for Web History......Page 164 11 Quantitative Web History Methods......Page 177 12 Computational Methods for Web History......Page 192 13 Visualizing Historical Web Data......Page 207 Part III: Technical and Structural Dimensions of Web History......Page 226 14 Adding the Dimension of Time to HTTP......Page 228 15 Hypertext before the Web – or, What the Web Could Have Been......Page 254 16 A Historiography of the Hyperlink: Periodizing the Web through the Changing Role of the Hyperlink......Page 266 17 How Search Shaped and Was Shaped by the Web......Page 281 18 Making the Web Meaningful: A History of Web Semantics......Page 295 19 Browsers and Browser Wars......Page 309 20 Emergence of the Mobile Web......Page 336 Part IV: Platforms on the Web......Page 352 21 Wikipedia......Page 354 22 A Critical Political Economy of Web Advertising History......Page 369 23 Exploring Web Archives in the Age of Abundance: A Social History Case Study of GeoCities......Page 383 24 Blogs......Page 398 25 The History of Online Social Media......Page 411 Part V: Web History and Users, some Case Studies......Page 424 26 Cultural Historiography of the ‘Homepage’......Page 426 27 Consumers, News, and a History of Change......Page 439 28 Historical Studies of National Web Domains......Page 452 29 The Origins of Electronic Literature as Net/Web Art......Page 467 30 Exploring the Memory of the First World War Using Web Archives: Web Graphs Seen from Different Angles......Page 480 31 A History with Web Archives, Not a History of Web Archives: A History of the British Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccine Crisis, 1998–2004......Page 503 32 Religion and Web History......Page 518 33 Hearing the Past: The Sonic Web from MIDI to Music Streaming......Page 530 34 Memes......Page 544 35 Years of the Internet: Vernacular Creativity before, on and after the Chinese Web......Page 559 36 Cultural, Political and Technical Factors Influencing Early Web Uptake in North America and East Asia......Page 576 37 Online Pornography......Page 590 38 Spam......Page 603 39 Trolls and Trolling History: From Subculture to Mainstream Practices......Page 616 Part VI: The Roads Ahead......Page 630 40 Web Archives and (Digital) History: A Troubled Past and a Promising Future?......Page 632 Index......Page 646