This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of
internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has developed
in the realm of web culture at large as well as how the organization of web industries and old
media institutions on the web have changed. A number of fundamental theoretical and
methodological questions related to doing web history are also examined. The collection aims to
explore some of the possible ways of approaching the web of the past based on the assumption
that the past is not only important for historical purposes but because it must be taken into
consideration in order to fully understand the web of the present and the web of the future.
The book includes a foreword by Charles Ess and contributions from Kirsten Foot Steven
Schneider Alexander Halavais Ken Hillis and more.
