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
Gustavo Gomez-Mejia, “La fabrique de la désuétude. Regards diachroniques sur Geocities et Myspace”, in Valérie Schafer (ed.) Temps et temporalités du Web [en ligne]. Nanterre : Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2018. Available at http://books.openedition.org/pupo/6088 Abstract: Cette étude revient sur le déclin progressif de sites jadis emblématiques comme Geocities et Myspace dont les intrigues sont mises en parallèle. A partir d’une … 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
Michael Stevenson and Anne Helmond, “Legacy systems: internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten”, Internet Histories, 4:1, 1-5, DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2020.1725854 Read more : – Introduction to the special issue in open access – Content of this special issue
Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder, Web as History, London, UCL Press, 2017. This volume argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles – through histories of national web spaces and case studies of different … Continued
Niels Brügger, “A brief Outline of Temporalities of the Web Online and in Web Archives”, in Valérie Schafer (ed.), Temps et temporalités du Web, Nanterre, Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2018. Read the chapter