The SAGE Handbook of Web History marks the first comprehensive review of this subject to date. Its editors emphasise two main different forms of study: the use of the web as an historical resource, and the web as an object of study in its own right.

Table of Contents

• 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 - Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry
• 6. Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Web History - Francesca Musiani and Valérie 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 - Valérie 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