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.
Best,
Niels Brügger
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NEW WEBSITE:
webhistorie.dk
— about my research project ‘Histories of the Danish web in the 1990s’.
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Internet Histories—Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Routledge) — latest issue 8(4),
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Please consider submitting an article to the Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award 2026, read more here
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— due 1 Oct 2025.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS (selection)
A. Ben-David, S. Aasman, N. Brügger (Eds.) (2025).
The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 468 p.
N. Brügger, G. Goggin (Eds.) (2022). Oral Histories of the Internet and the Web. London/New York: Routledge, 226 p.
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
NIELS BRÜGGER, Professor, PhD
Department of Media and Journalism Studies
School of Communication and Culture
Aarhus University
Helsingforsgade 14, building 5335, room 239
8200 Aarhus N
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Coordinator of the RESAW Conferences, resaw.eu
Member of the Academia Europaea
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Phone +45 2945 3231
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