This special issue introductory article investigates contemporary notions of theory in
journalism studies. Many scholars have argued that we need better ways of conceptualising …

Digital methods are techniques for the study of societal change and cultural condition with
online data. They make use of available digital objects such as the hyperlink, tag, timestamp …

Contemporary approaches to the investigation of digital resources are dominated by the
paradigm of free-form natural language search, popularised by Google. The Google form of …

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 …

The article proposes archival thinking as an analytical framework for studying Facebook.
Following recent debates on data colonialism, it argues that Facebook dialectically assumes …

This contribution examines the different concepts known as social informatics that have
historically been separate. The paradigm that is preferred worldwide (based on Kling) is well …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conduct a retrospective bibliometric analysis of
documents about digital humanities, an emerging but interdisciplinary movement. It …

As historians start researching the late twentieth century, they are increasingly finding traces
of the past created digitally. At the same time, use of computers to digitise analogue material …

From its origins in virtual financial transactions, emerging initiatives are seeking to acquire a
new identity for blockchain as capable of addressing anxieties over the capacity of digital …

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the
development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also considering possible directions for …