The SAGE Handbook of Web History

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Title - Complete......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Box......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 15
Notes on the Editors and Contributors......Page 16
Foreword The Web as Counterpart......Page 26
Introduction......Page 29
Part I: The Web and Historiography......Page 40
1 Historiography and the Web......Page 42
2 Understanding the Archived Web as a Historical Source......Page 55
3 Existing Web Archives......Page 69
4 Periodizing Web Archiving: Biographical, Event-Based, National and Autobiographical Traditions......Page 81
Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections......Page 96
5 Web History in Context......Page 98
6 Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Web History......Page 112
7 Theorizing the Uses of the Web......Page 125
8 Ethical Considerations for Web Archives and Web History Research......Page 138
9 Collecting Primary Sources from Web Archives: A Tale of Scarcity and Abundance......Page 151
10 Network Analysis for Web History......Page 164
11 Quantitative Web History Methods......Page 177
12 Computational Methods for Web History......Page 192
13 Visualizing Historical Web Data......Page 207
Part III: Technical and Structural Dimensions of Web History......Page 226
14 Adding the Dimension of Time to HTTP......Page 228
15 Hypertext before the Web – or, What the Web Could Have Been......Page 254
16 A Historiography of the Hyperlink: Periodizing the Web through the Changing Role of the Hyperlink......Page 266
17 How Search Shaped and Was Shaped by the Web......Page 281
18 Making the Web Meaningful: A History of Web Semantics......Page 295
19 Browsers and Browser Wars......Page 309
20 Emergence of the Mobile Web......Page 336
Part IV: Platforms on the Web......Page 352
21 Wikipedia......Page 354
22 A Critical Political Economy of Web Advertising History......Page 369
23 Exploring Web Archives in the Age of Abundance: A Social History Case Study of GeoCities......Page 383
24 Blogs......Page 398
25 The History of Online Social Media......Page 411
Part V: Web History and Users, some Case Studies......Page 424
26 Cultural Historiography of the ‘Homepage’......Page 426
27 Consumers, News, and a History of Change......Page 439
28 Historical Studies of National Web Domains......Page 452
29 The Origins of Electronic Literature as Net/Web Art......Page 467
30 Exploring the Memory of the First World War Using Web Archives: Web Graphs Seen from Different Angles......Page 480
31 A History with Web Archives, Not a History of Web Archives: A History of the British Measles–Mumps–Rubella Vaccine Crisis, 1998–2004......Page 503
32 Religion and Web History......Page 518
33 Hearing the Past: The Sonic Web from MIDI to Music Streaming......Page 530
34 Memes......Page 544
35 Years of the Internet: Vernacular Creativity before, on and after the Chinese Web......Page 559
36 Cultural, Political and Technical Factors Influencing Early Web Uptake in North America and East Asia......Page 576
37 Online Pornography......Page 590
38 Spam......Page 603
39 Trolls and Trolling History: From Subculture to Mainstream Practices......Page 616
Part VI: The Roads Ahead......Page 630
40 Web Archives and (Digital) History: A Troubled Past and a Promising Future?......Page 632
Index......Page 646