List of figures
List of tables
Notes on the editors and contributors
Foreword / Steve Jones
Introduction
Part I: The Web and historiography: 1. Historiography and the Web / Ian Milligan; 2. Understanding the archived Web as a historical source / Niels Brügger; 3. Existing Web archives / Peter Webster; 4. Periodizing Web archiving: biographical, event-based, national and autobiographical traditions / Richard Rogers
Part II: Theoretical and methodological reflections: 5. Web history in context / Valřie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry; 6. Science and technology studies approaches to Web history / Francesca Musiani and Valřie Schafer; 7. Theorizing the uses of the Web / Ralph Schroeder; 8. Ethical considerations for Web archives and Web history research / Stine Lomborg; 9. Collecting primary sources from Web archives: a tale of scarcity and abundance / Federico Nanni; 10. Network analysis for Web history / Michael Stevenson and Anat Ben-David; 11. Quantitative Web history methods / Anthony Cocciolo; 12. Computational methods for Web history / Anat Ben-David and Adam Amram; 13. Visualizing historical Web data / Justin Joque


Part III: Technical and structural dimensions of Web history: 14. Adding the dimension of time to HTTP / Michael L. Nelson and Herbert Van de Sompel; 15. Hypertext before the Web
or, What the Web could have been / Belinda Barnet; 16. A historiography of the hyperlink: periodizing the Web through the changing role of the hyperlink / Anne Helmond; 17. How search shaped and was shaped by the Web242 / Alexander Halavais; 18. Making the Web meaningful: a history of Web semantics / Lindsay Poirier; 19. Browsers and browser wars / Marc Weber; 20. Emergence of the mobile Web / Gerard Goggin
Part IV: Platforms on the Web: 21. Wikipedia / Andy Famiglietti; 22. A critical political economy of Web advertising history / Matthew Crain; 23. Exploring Web archives in the age of abundance: a social history case study of GeoCities / Ian Milligan; 24. Blogs / Ignacio Siles; 25. The History of Online Social Media / Christina Ortner, Philip Sinner and Tanja Jadin


Part V: Web history and users, some case studies: 26. Cultural historiography of the "homepage" / Madhavi Mallapragada; 27. Consumers, news, and a history of change / Allie Kosterich and Matthew Weber; 28. Historical studies of national Web domains / Niels Brügger and Ditte Laursen; 29. The origins of electronic literature as net/Web art / James O'Sullivan and Dene Grigar; 30. Exploring the memory of the First World War using Web archives: Web graphs seen from different angles / Valřie Beaudouin, Zeynep Pehlivan and Peter Stirling; 31. A history with Web archives, not a history of Web archives: a history of the British Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine Crisis, 1998-2004 / Gareth Millward; 32. Religion and Web history / Peter Webster; 33. Hearing the past: the sonic Web from MIDI to music streaming / Jeremy Wade Morris; 34. Memes / Jim McGrath; 35. Years of the internet: vernacular creativity before, on and after the Chinese Web / Gabriele de Seta; 36. Cultural, political and technical factors influencing early Web uptake in North America and East Asia / Mark McLelland; 37. Online pornography / Susanna Paasonen; 38. Spam / Finn Brunton; 39. Trolls and trolling history: from subculture to mainstream practices / Michael Nycyk
Part VI: Roads ahead: 40. Web Archives and (digital) history: a troubled past and a promising future? / Jane Winters.