In this article, we propose a methodological outlook for historical platform studies to increase
the prominence of platform historiography in the field and practice of web history and …

Uniting methods from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities, this hands-on
guide develops a novel approach to doing document analysis. The authors present a …

This introductory essay presents a broad concept of digital history. Along with the themes
covered in the individual articles, it surveys the major issues arising from the digitalization of …

The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part of our social, cultural
and political lives,'new media'is simply not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding …

»[…] wenn› die Quelle‹ die Reliquie historischen Arbeitens ist–nicht nur Überbleibsel,
sondern auch Objekt wissenschaftlicher Verehrung–, dann wäre analog› das Archiv‹ die …

This paper emphasizes the need to think about sustainability as a key element of digital
studies and digital hermeneutics. It addresses the inherent tensions between the long-term …

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 …

This article frames the cultural significance of web archiving through an ethnographic study
of Archive Team and their efforts to archive “Not Safe for Work” posts on the popular social …

The Archives Unleashed project aims to improve scholarly access to web archives through a
multi-pronged strategy involving tool creation, process modeling, and community building …

This article considers how the development, promotion and adoption of a set of core values
for web archives, linked to principles of “good governance”, will help them to tackle the …