The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies

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1 Introducing transnational web archive studies

Anat Ben-David, Susan Aasman & Niels Brügger

2 ‘History web’, ‘web history’, and ‘history of the web’: Three subfields and why (and why not) integrating them

Gabriele Balbi

Part I:  Entire national web domains from a transnational perspective

3 Iconography in flux: A transnational exploration of the evolution of climate news imagery through the Wayback Machine

Anat Ben-David, Adam Amram & Noa Turgeman

4 Comparing the holdings of closed national web archives through summaries

Janne Nielsen, Yves Maurer & Eld Zierau

5 Exploring the evolution of .lu domain names through a transnational comparison: Similarities and differences between .lu and .dk

Carmen Noguera, Janne Nielsen, Yves Maurer & Ben Els

6 Comparing national web domains across national web archives: Methodological and practical challenges of doing transnational studies

Niels Brügger

7 Conversation 1: Transnational

Part II: The COVID-19 crisis as a transnational event

8 Oral histories and scalable reading: Analysing born-digital collecting practices during the COVID-19 pandemic

Friedel Geeraert, Nicola Bingham, Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Jane Winters & Frédéric Clavert

9 Surveying the landscape of COVID-19 web collections in European GLAM institutions: An explorative analysis

Nicola Bingham, Karin de Wild, Friedel Geeraert & Caroline Nyvang

10 What can we learn from URLs? Understanding the scope of COVID-19 web archive collections for transnational analyses

Friedel Geeraert, Karin de Wild & Susan Aasman

11 The challenges of searching for women in the COVID-19 web archive collections: Promises, achievements, and pitfalls

Valérie Schafer, Susan Aasman, Frédéric Clavert, Karin de Wild & Joshgun Sirajzade

12 Conversation 2: Events

Part III: Methods and skills in web archive studies

13 Information ecosystems through the lens of web archives

Matthew S. Weber

14 History of virtual museums and web archives: Opportunities for rescaling research

Nadezhda Povroznik

15 Exploring skills and training requirements for the web archiving community

Helena Byrne, Juan-José Boté-Vericad &Sharon Healy

16 Teaching web archiving in higher education: Best practices and future perspectives

Márton Németh

17 Conversation 3: Communities

Part IV: Politics of web archives as collections

18 The trouble with community: Constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing transnational “community” micro-archives

Saskia Huc-Hepher & Xiao Ma

19 An inclusive approach to web archiving: The case of the Middle East and North African websites in the IIPC Novel Coronavirus collection

Gebeil Sophie

20 The many lives of WeChat: Curating histories of the web in museum environments

Simone Natale

21 Participation, platforms and cultural heritage: Web archiving challenges

Marta Severo

22 Building an archive of historical web defacements

Michael Kurzmeier

23 Conversation 4: Institutional challenges

Part V: Institutional challenges

24 Screens in struggle: From archived web corpus to readable data for history research

Sophie Gebeil & Jérôme Thièvre

25 Towards transnational research data management practices for web archives: Challenges and possibilities

Eld Zierau, Beatrice Cannelli, Sally Chambers, Olga Holownia, Sharon Healy, Ditte Laursen, Susan Aasman & Ulrich Karstoft Have

26 The importance of legal requirements for web archives studies in Belgian and French law

Lise-Anne Denis

27 Public policies, technological infrastructure and uses of web archives by the Digital Humanities in Brazil

Moisés Rockembach

28 Conversation 5: The future

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Biography

Susan Aasman is Professor in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her expertise is in the field of media history with a focus on digital media and web historiography and the new emerging field of web archaeology. She is interested in private, common, and institutional digital archival practices and discourses.

Anat Ben-David is an associate professor of communication at the Open University of Israel. Her research focuses on internet histories, digital technologies, and the intersection of politics and knowledge. Her work in web archive studies critically examines how archival infrastructures and geopolitics shape the web’s pasts and explores new methods for advancing critical web archive research.

Niels Brügger is Professor at Aarhus University, School of Communication and Culture. His research interests are web historiography, web archiving, and media theory. Within these fields, he has authored a number of publications, including Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web (Ed.; Peter Lang, 2017), and The archived web: Doing history in the digital age (MIT Press, 2018).