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
A special project of the Internet Archive. ” (…) The GeoCities Animated Gif Search Engine was a special project of the Internet Archive done as part of our 20th Anniversary to highlight and celebrate fun aspects of the amazing history of the web as represented in the web archive and the Wayback Machine. GeoCities was … Continued
Anne Helmond, “A Historiography of the Hyperlink: Periodizing the Web Through the Changing Role of the Hyperlink“, in Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Web History, London, SAGE Publications, 2018, pp. 227–241. “In this chapter I provide a historiography of one of the core elements of the web, the hypertext link. I … Continued
Francesca Musiani, Camille Paloque-Berges, Valérie Schafer, Benjamin G. Thierry, Qu’est-ce qu’une archive du Web ?, Marseille, OpenEdition, 2019. Available at: https://books.openedition.org/oep/8713 Abstract: Bien que le Web ait seulement trente ans, son patrimoine est déjà pléthorique : la fondation Internet Archive a collecté plus de 345 milliards de pages web depuis 1996. Cette fondation, qui fut l’un des pionniers de … Continued
Janne Nielsen, Using web archives in research – an introduction, Aarhus, Netlab, 2016. This book has been written in connection with the development of NetLab’s workshops on web archiving for researchers. These workshops provide the participants with an introduction to working with archived web materials in research, including a description of what web archiving is, the challenges … Continued
Søren Vigild Poulsen, “Becoming a semiotic technology – a historical study of Instagram’s tools for making and sharing photos and videos”, Internet Histories, 2018, 2: 1-2, pp. 121-139, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2018.1459350 Abstract: (…) Drawing on a social semiotic multimodal framework, this article presents an analysis of selected tools in the Instagram mobile user interface from 2010 until 2017. It reports on the findings of … Continued