Internet Histories

ISBN-13: 9781138570429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 218 str.

Niels Brugger; Gerard Goggin; Ian Milligan

Opis

While the Internet and new media seem new, they have been with us for well over two decades. Internet Histories explores the new interdisciplinary and dynamic field of Internet history through eighteen short essays and a series of interviews with early Web participants. It was originally published as an issue of the Internet Histories journal.

Spis treści

Introduction: Internet histories  1. What and where is the Internet? (Re)defining Internet histories  2. Hagiography, revisionism & blasphemy in Internet histories  3. A common language  4. Can we write a cultural history of the Internet? If so, how?  5. Searching for missing "net histories"  6. Out from the PLATO cave: uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing  7. Internet histories: the view from the design process  8. The Internet as a structure of feeling: 1992–1996  9. Precorporation: or what financialisation can tell us about the histories of the Internet  10. Internet in the Middle East: an asymmetrical model of development  11. The unexplored history of operationalising digital divides: a pilot study  12. Early challenges to multilingualism on the Internet: the case of Han character-based scripts  13. African histories of the Internet  14. Notes from/dev/null  15. Archaeology of the Amsterdam digital city; why digital data are dynamic and should be treated accordingly  16. Doing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentaries  17. Breaking in to the mainstream: demonstrating the value of internet (and web) histories  18. For a dynamic and post-digital history of the Internet: a research agenda  19. Interview

O autorze

Niels Brügger is Professor of Internet Studies and Digital Humanities at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Ian Milligan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Valérie Schafer is a Historian at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France.