The web as history : using web archives to understand the past and the present /: using web archives to understand the past and the present. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder.
• Editors: Brügger, Niels, 1959-; Schroeder, Ralph
• Contents: Introduction: the web as history -- Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities on the web -- Live versus archive: comparing a web archive to a population of web pages -- Exploring the domain names of the Danish web -- The tumultuous history of news on the web -- International hyperlinks in online news media -- From far away to a click away: the French state and public services in the 1990s -- Welcome to the web: the online community of geocities during the early years of the World Wide Web -- Using the web to examine the evolution of the abortion debate in Australia, 2005-2015 -- Religious discourse in the archived web: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the sharia law controversy of 2008 -- 'Taqwacore is dead. Long live taqwacore' or punk's not dead?: studying the online evolution of the Islamic punk scene -- Cultures of the UK web -- Coda: web archives for humanities research-some reflections.
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 025.0422; Web archives; Web archiving; History -- Methodology; Computing and information technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies; History -- Methodology; Web archives; Web archiving; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781911307587; 1911307584; 9781911307563; 1911307568
• Related ISBNs: 1911307428; 9781911307426; 191130755X; 9781911307556
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.