Web as History : Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present /

The World Wide Web has now been in use for more than 20 years. From early browsers to today's principal source of information, entertainment and much else, the Web is an integral part of our daily lives, to the extent that some people believe 'if it's not online, it doesn't exist...

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Main Author: Brügger, Niels
Other Authors: Schroeder, Ralph
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : UCL Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of Contributors; Introduction: The web as history; The web as a reflection of society; The web in context; Online information in everyday life; Web archives and researchers; The landscape of the web of the past; Making the web of the past useful for scholars; Collaborations between web archives and scholars; Building on existing literature; Future research; Overview of the chapters; Part one The size and shape of web domains. 
505 0 |a 1 Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities on the webIntroduction; Background; Archiving national web domains; Previous research using national web archives; The UK web domain; Data; Data preparation; Data analysis; Results; Overview of growth in the .uk web domain; Link density within and between second-level domains; The UK academic subdomain; Group affiliation; League table ranking; Role of geography; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 2 Live versus archive: Comparing a web archive to a population of web pages; Introduction; Literature; Case selection. 
505 0 |a 5 International hyperlinks in online news mediaIntroduction: international news coverage on- and off-line; Theorizing international outlinking patterns; Data, methods and descriptive statistics; Analysis; Discussion; 6 From far away to a click away: The French state and public services in the 1990s; The web loathes a vacuum; Exogenous and peripheral initiatives; From newsgroups to websites: political and legal issues; A reluctant administrative culture; 1997-1998: The impetus; Entering the information society; The Hourtin address and the PAGSI; Just one (but most likely more) clicks away. 
505 0 |a Data and methodsResults; Data overview; Comparing the two datasets; Discussion; 3 Exploring the domain names of the Danish web; Introduction; Studying the development of a national web domain; Domain names as a historical source; The national Danish web archive Netarkivet and the Danish ccTLD list; The development of the domain names of the Danish web; Number of Danish domain names and ownership 2005-2015; Danish domain names before 2005; The Danish domain names in Netarkivet and in the Internet Archive; Domain names and archived web; What domain names can tell us about the Danish web domain. 
505 0 |a Domain name studies and archived web contentConclusion; Part two Media and government; 4 The tumultuous history of news on the web; News and the web; History of news on the web, from the web; The web as history: news online; The early days of news on the web: 1990-2005; The rise of blogs; And then came social media; The challenge of adapting to the web; The web, grown up: 2010-2015; The changing news landscape as a local story; The next generation of news on the web, and beyond; Echoes of social networking; Mobility, automation and everything after; Why the web's history of news matters. 
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