A proposal to repurpose Web-native techniques for use in social and cultural scholarly
research. In Digital Methods, Richard Rogers proposes a methodological outlook for social …

An original methodological framework for approaching the archived web, both as a source
and as an object of study in its own right. As life continues to move online, the web becomes …

This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of
internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has …

Web archiving has been gaining interest and recognized importance for modern societies
around the world. However, for web archivists it is frequently difficult to demonstrate this fact …

Since the mid-1990s the Web has constituted an increasingly important source for studies of
the recent history of society and culture, and a number of national and international Web …

In this article it is argued that one of the major transformative factors of the humanities at the
beginning of the 21st century is the shift from analogue to digital source material, and that …

Among the conceptual and methodological opportunities afforded by the Internet Archive,
and more specifically, the WayBack Machine, is the capacity to capture and “play back” the …

For historians, and researchers in many other humanities disciplines, web archives remain
largely an unknown, and certainly underused, primary source. Even within digital …

The aim of this article is to provide an exploratory analysis of the landscape of web archiving
activities in Europe. Our contribution, based on desk research, and complemented with data …

The field of web archiving is at a turning point. In the early years of web archiving, the single
URL has been the dominant unit for preservation and access. Access tools such as the …