Web History

The Editor: Niels Brügger is Associate Professor at The Centre for Internet Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. His primary research interest is website history, and in 2007 he started writing a history of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s website entitled The History of dr.dk, 1996-2006. He has published a number of articles, monographs, and edited books, including Archiving Websites: General Considerations and Strategies (2005) and Media History: Theories, Methods, Analysis (ed. with S. Kolstrup, 2002).

Contents: Charles Ess: Foreword: History - With a Future – Niels Brügger: Introduction: Web History, an Emerging Field of Study – Niels Brügger: Website History: An Analytical Grid – Kirsten Foot/Steven Schneider: Object-Oriented Web Historiography – Alexander Halavais: Evolution of U.S. White Nationalism on the Web – Albrecht Hofheinz: A History of Allah.com – Ken Hillis: Historicizing Webcam Culture: The Telefetish as Virtual Object – Dominika Szope: Self-portrayal on the Web – Megan Sapnar Ankerson: Web Industries, Economies, Aesthetics: Mapping the Look of the Web in the Dot-com Era – Tomi Lindblom: Analysing and Comparing the Histories of Web Strategies of Major Media Companies - Case Finland – Einar Thorsen: BBC News Online: A Brief History of Past and Present – Vidar Falkenberg: (R)evolution under Construction: The Dual History of Online Newspapers and Newspapers Online – Iben Bredahl Jessen: The Aesthetics of Web Advertising: Methodological Implications for the Study of Genre Development – Charles van den Heuvel: Web Archiving in Research and Historical Global Collaboratories – Brent Jesiek/Jeremy Hunsinger: Collecting and Preserving Memories from the Virginia Tech Tragedy: Realizing a Web Archive – Ida Engholm: Research-based Online Presentation of Web Design History: The Case of webmuseum.dk – Niels Brügger: Epilogue: The Future of Web History.