The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies explores the untapped potential of web archives for researching transnational digital history and communication. It covers cross-border, cross-collection, and cross-institutional examination of web archives on a global scale.
This comprehensive collaborative work, emerging from the WARCnet research network, presents an exploration of the ways web archive research can transcend technological and legal challenges to allow for new comparative, transnational studies of the web’s pasts, and of global events. By combining interdisciplinary work and fostering collaboration between web archivists and researchers, the book provides readers with cutting-edge approaches to analysing digital cultural heritage across countries. The book contains concrete examples on how to research national web domains through a transnational perspective; provides case studies with grounded explorations of the COVID-19 crisis as a distinctly transnational event captured by web archives; offers methodological considerations while unpacking techniques and skill sets for conducting transnational web archive research, and critically engages the politics and power dynamics inherent to web archives as institutionalised collections.
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies is an essential read for graduate students and scholars from internet and media studies, cultural studies, history, and digital humanities. It will also appeal to web archiving practitioners, including librarians, web curators, and IT developers.
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies explores the untapped potential of web archives for researching transnational digital history and communication. It covers cross-border, cross-collection, and cross-institutional examination of web archives on a global scale.
Lists of figures; List of maps; List of tables; List of contributors; 1
Introducing transnational web archive studies; 2 History web, web
history, and history of the web: Three subfields and why (and why not)
integrating them; Part I: Entire national web domains from a transnational
perspective 3 Iconography in flux: A transnational exploration of the
evolution of climate news imagery through the Wayback Machine; 4 Comparing
the holdings of closed national web archives through summaries; 5 Exploring
the evolution of .lu domain names through a transnational comparison:
Similarities and differences between .lu and .dk; 6 Comparing national web
domains across national web archives: Methodological and practical challenges
of doing transnational studies; 7 Conversation 1: Transnational; Part II: The
COVID-19 crisis as a transnational event 8 Oral histories and scalable
reading: Analysing born-digital collecting practices during the COVID-19
pandemic; 9 Surveying the landscape of COVID-19 web collections in European
GLAM institutions: An explorative analysis; 10 What can we learn from URLs?
Understanding the scope of COVID-19 web archive collections for transnational
analyses; 11 The challenges of searching for women in the COVID-19 web
archive collections: Promises, achievements, and pitfalls; 12 Conversation 2:
Events; Part III: Methods and skills in web archive studies 13 Information
ecosystems through the lens of web archives; 14 History of virtual museums
and web archives: Opportunities for rescaling research; 15 Exploring skills
and training requirements for the web archiving community; 16 Teaching web
archiving in higher education: Best practices and future perspectives; 17
Conversation 3: Communities; Part IV: Politics of web archives as collections
18 The trouble with community: Constructing, deconstructing and
reconstructing transnational community micro-archives; 19 An inclusive
approach to web archiving: The case of the Middle East and North African
websites in the IIPC Novel Coronavirus collection; 20 The many lives of
WeChat: Curating histories of the web in museum environments; 21
Participation, platforms and cultural heritage: Web archiving challenges; 22
Building an archive of historical web defacements; 23 Conversation 4:
Institutional challenges; Part V: Institutional challenges 24 Screens in
struggle: From archived web corpus to readable data for history research; 25
Towards transnational research data management practices for web archives:
Challenges and possibilities; 26 The importance of legal requirements for web
archives studies in Belgian and French law; 27 Public policies, technological
infrastructure and uses of web archives by the Digital Humanities in Brazil;
28 Conversation 5: The future; Glossary; Index.
Susan Aasman is Professor in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her expertise is in the field of media history with a focus on digital media and web historiography and the new emerging field of web archaeology. She is interested in private, common, and institutional digital archival practices and discourses.
Anat Ben-David is an associate professor of communication at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on internet histories, digital technologies, and the intersection of politics and knowledge. Her work in web archive studies critically examines how archival infrastructures and geopolitics shape the webs pasts and explores new methods for advancing critical web archive research.
Niels Brügger is Professor at Aarhus University, School of Communication and Culture. His research interests are web historiography, web archiving, and media theory. Within these fields, he has authored a number of publications, including Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web (Ed.; Peter Lang, 2017), and The archived web: Doing history in the digital age (MIT Press, 2018).
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