This article analyses the socio-technical epistemic processes behind the construction of
historical facts by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (IAWM). Grounded in theoretical …

This short article explores the challenges involved in demonstrating the value of web
archives, and the histories that they embody, beyond media and Internet studies. Given the …

Niels Brügger a, Gerard Goggin b, Ian Milligan c and Valérie Schafer d aThe Centre for
Internet Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; bDepartment of Media and …

Research on Internet histories is still emerging in European countries. The Oxford Internet
Institute was founded in the UK in 2001, and has been an important center supporting …

Across time, space and language, the meaning of “the Internet” is taken to be self-evident;
appearing to both the scholar and the everyday user as a singular, homogeneous …

The ways in which historians define the Internet profoundly shape the histories we write.
Many studies implicitly define the Internet in material terms, as a particular set of hardware …

Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social
contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and …

I argue that web historiography should be placed higher on the Internet Studies' research
agenda, since a better understanding of the web of the past is an important condition for …

digital_history_book_cover This book provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough
introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum …

Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace if an archive is a repository of documents, the World
Wide Web has the potential to become a collection of those repositories: an archive of …