The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present by Niels Brugger
English | Mar. 6, 2017 | ISBN: 1911307428 | 298 Pages | PDF | 19 MB
The web as a reflection of society
The web has been with us for more than a quarter of a century. It has
become a daily and ubiquitous source of information in many peoples’
lives around the globe. But what does it tell us about historical and
social change? For a researcher in the twenty-second century, it will
seem unimaginable that someone studying the twenty-first century
would do anything but draw heavily on the online world to tell them
about peoples’ changing lives. Currently, however, the web remains an
almost untapped source for research. This book aims to make a start in
this direction.