Friday 2 July 2021, 10.00-12.00 am This panel, which is organized by the WARCnet network, aims to analyze web archiving and web archives during an unexpected and disruptive event: the COVID-19 crisis. Combining analysis by web archivists and scholars, it addresses several issues currently at stake, may it be with regards to the historization and … Continued
Data as a new resource? Similarities and differences of data vs. material resources Tensions of Europe Digital Workshop Festival 30 June 2021, Online meeting via WEBEX, 10h-18h CET We welcome proposals for participation in the workshop Data as a new resource? Similarities and differences of data vs. material resources, which will take place online via a … Continued
Shawn Graham, Ian Milligan, Scott Weingart, Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian’s Macroscope, London, Imperial College Press, 2015. Abstract: We believe that the Digital Humanities is partly about understanding what digital tools have to offer, but also (and perhaps more importantly), what ‘digital’ does to how we understand the past, and ourselves. In Exploring Big Historical … Continued
Valérie Schafer, Gérome Truc, Romain Badouard, Lucien Castex and Francesca Musiani, “Paris and Nice terrorist attacks: Exploring Twitter and web archives”, Media, War & Conflict, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635219839382 Abstract: The attacks suffered by France in January and November 2015, and then in the course of 2016, especially the Nice attack, provoked intense online activity both during … Continued
Ben-David, A., “Counter-Archiving Facebook“, European Journal of Communication, 2020. DOI: 10.1177/0267323120922069. Abstract: The article proposes archival thinking as an analytical framework for studying Facebook. Following recent debates on data colonialism, it argues that Facebook dialectically assumes a role of a new archon of public records, while being unarchivable by design. It then puts forward counter-archiving – a … Continued