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Web History and the Web as a Historical Source
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Abstract
The web and tomorrow’s historiography. Since the 1990s the world wide web (or simply, the web) has been an integral and important part of the communicative infrastructure of modern societies. On the one hand the web has developed as a new medium in its own right, in continuation of other media types... view more
The web and tomorrow’s historiography. Since the 1990s the world wide web (or simply, the web) has been an integral and important part of the communicative infrastructure of modern societies. On the one hand the web has developed as a new medium in its own right, in continuation of other media types such as newspapers, film, radio and television. On the other hand, the web has been intimately entangled in the social, cultural and political life taking place outside of the web. For example, within the realm of politics the web has been essential for the extreme left and right since the mid 1990s (as a platform for discussion and mobilisation as well as for the diffusion of political ideas). And in everyday life an important part of modern youth culture has for a number of years been closely connected to such web phenomena as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.... view less
Classification
General History
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Kommunikation; Medien; Historiographiegeschichte; Computerisierung; Digital Humanities; Wissenschaft; Wissen
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 316-325
Journal
Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 9 (2012) 2
Issue topic
Computerisierung und Informationsgesellschaft
ISSN
1612-6033
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed