TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brügger,Niels
AU  - Schroeder,Ralph
TI  - The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present 
SN  - 9781911307563
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Social Science / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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. While this statement is not entirely true, it is becoming increasingly accurate, and reflects the Web's role as an indispensable treasure trove. It is curious, therefore, that historians and social scientists have thus far made little use of the Web to investigate historical patterns of culture and society, despite making good use of letters, novels, newspapers, radio and television programmes, and other pre-digital artefacts.This volume argues that now is the time to question what we have learnt from the Web so far. The 12 chapters explore this topic from a number of interdisciplinary angles- through histories of national web spaces and case studies of different government and media domains
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/dc98a552-39b4-43e8-ad44-81c89a1afe09
ER  -