Dear all,
A wonderful colleague of mine, Nancy Tomes, is working on the following project and asked me to send the following request around:
"If you will be using a U.S. archive or library this summer, consider reporting back on the conditions you find there using this survey, which I helped develop for the Organization of American Historians along with Chris Sellers.
Some background: in late February, I helped found HARPP, an OAH sponsored group dedicated to resisting the current assault on U.S. history. Chris Sellers is also a member. Here's a link to our OAH webpage, which includes our mission statement:
HAARP website <https://www.oah.org/resources/advocacy-partners/harpp/>
We've initiated an oral history project with fired and endangered federal workers and another survey documenting ideological deletions and revisions to historical sites, institutions, and agencies in the U.S.
Now we are launching a survey to get information about the impact of budget cuts and ideological campaigns on US archives and libraries. If you are using a US library or archive this summer, please report back on what you find.
The new survey is here. https://www.oah.org/2025/06/10/survey-what-are-you-seeing-as-you-research-t… <https://protect.checkpoint.com/v2/r01/___https://www.oah.org/2025/06/10/sur…>
Thanks. I'm glad to answer any questions you may have. (nancy.tomes(a)stonybrook.edu <mailto:nancy.tomes@stonybrook.edu>)”
All the best,
Susannah
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Susannah E. Glickman
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Stony Brook University
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies explores the untapped potential of web archives for researching transnational digital history and communication. It covers cross- border, cross- collection, and cross- institutional examination of web archives on a global scale.
This comprehensive collaborative work, emerging from the WARCnet research network, presents an exploration of the ways web archive research can transcend technological and legal challenges to allow for new comparative, transnational studies of the web’s pasts, and of global events. By combining interdisciplinary work and fostering collaboration between web archivists and researchers, the book provides readers with cutting- edge approaches to analyzing digital cultural heritage across countries. The book contains concrete examples on how to research national web domains through a transnational perspective; provides case studies with grounded explorations of the COVID- 19 crisis as a distinctly transnational event captured by web archives; offers methodological considerations while unpacking techniques and skill sets for conducting transnational web archive research; and critically engages the politics and power dynamics inherent to web archives as institutionalised collections.
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies is an essential read for graduate students and scholars from internet and media studies, cultural studies, history, and digital humanities. It will also appeal to web archiving practitioners, including librarians, web curators, and IT developers.
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Best,
Niels Brügger
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LATEST PUBLICATIONS (selection)
A. Ben-David, S. Aasman, N. Brügger (Eds.) (2025). The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 468 p.
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N. Brügger, G. Goggin (Eds.) (2022). Oral Histories of the Internet and the Web. London/New York: Routledge, 226 p.
https://www.routledge.com/Oral-Histories-of-the-Internet-and-the-Web/Brugge…
N. Brügger (2022). Tracing a historical development of conspiracy theory networks on the web: The hyperlink network of vaccine hesitancy on the Danish web 2006–2015. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, online first. Read article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565221104989
N. Brügger (2022). Media events in an age of the Web and television: Dayan and Katz revisited. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 4(1), 37-55. Read article: https://doi.org/10.2478/njms-2022-0003
A. Fage-Butler, L. Ledderer, N. Brügger (2022). Proposing methods to explore the evolution of the term ‘mHealth’ on the Danish Web archive. FirstMonday, 27(1). Read article: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11675
N. Brügger (2021). Digital humanities and web archives: Possible new paths for combining datasets, International Journal of Digital Humanities, 2(1-3). Read article: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42803-021-00038-z
N. Brügger, J. Nielsen, D. Laursen (2020). Big data experiments with the archived Web: Methodological reflections on studying the development of a nation's Web. First Monday, 25(3). Read article: https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10384
N. Brügger, D. Laursen (Eds.) (2019). The historical web and digital humanities. London/New York: Routledge, 194 p. — now in paperback
https://www.routledge.com/The-Historical-Web-and-Digital-Humanities/Brugger…
NIELS BRÜGGER, Professor, PhD
Department of Media and Journalism Studies
School of Communication and Culture
Aarhus University
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