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Doing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentaries

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dc.creatorRogers, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-31T09:52:40Z
dc.date.available2020-07-31T09:52:40Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-31
dc.description.abstractAmong the conceptual and methodological opportunities afforded by the Internet Archive, and more specifically, the WayBack Machine, is the capacity to capture and “play back” the history a web page, most notably a website’s homepage. These playbacks could be construed as “website histories”, distinctive at least in principle from other uses put to the Internet Archive such as “digital history” and “Internet history”. In the following, common use cases for web archives are put forward in a discussion of digital source criticism. Thereafter, I situate website history within traditions in web historiography. The particular approach to website history introduced here is called “screencast documentaries”. Building upon Jon Udell’s pioneering screencapturing work retelling the edit history of a Wikipedia page, I discuss overarching strategies for narrating screencast documentaries of websites, namely histories of the Web as seen through the changes to a single page, media histories as negotiations between new and old media as well as digital histories made from scrutinising changes to the list of priorities at a tone-setting institution such as whitehouse.gov.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/24701475.2017.1307542
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14028
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2017.1307542
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14984
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeLondon
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2470-1483
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDigitale Methodende
dc.subjectMediengeschichtede
dc.subjectinternetde
dc.subjectWebsite historyen
dc.subjectWeb historyen
dc.subjectdigital historyen
dc.subjectWayBack Machineen
dc.subjectInternet Archiveen
dc.subjectscreencast documentaryen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleDoing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentariesen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:00:34
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2017.1307542
local.source.epage172
local.source.issue1-2
local.source.spage160
local.source.volume1

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