Browsing History by Subject "digital history"
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Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-03-14)Contemporary and future historians need to grapple with and confront the challenges posed by web archives. These large collections of material, accessed either through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or through other ... -
Mining the ‘Internet Graveyard’: Rethinking the Historians’ Toolkit
(Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 2013-05-01)“Mining the Internet Graveyard” argues that the advent of massive quantity of born-digital historical sources necessitates a rethinking of the historians’ toolkit. The contours of a third wave of computational history are ... -
The Queer Eternal September: LGBTQ Identity on the Early Internet and Web
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)This dissertation examines the expression of queer identity and community on the early internet and web, and suggests a methodology for working with archived internet and web sources when exploring the history of marginalized ... -
We Are All Digital Now: Digital Photography and the Reshaping of Historical Practice
(Canadian Historical Review, 2020-12)Visiting a reading room in the last five years is a very different experience than what it looked like even fifteen years ago: while a few researchers carefully read archival documents in situ, most are crouched over their ...