Web archives enjoy an increasing awareness and usefulness across a range of fields and disciplines, contributing to historical studies with archived web material, but also about the internet. Knowing how the web is imagined is essential for interpreting archived web material, especially during a highly transformative age in which technology advances at a rapid pace. This chapter investigates such a time of studying the Dutch web between 1994 and 2004, confirming that discourse surrounding the internet is appropriated differently. By means of a thematic analysis of a purposive sample of public media, the chapter presents 5 discursive themes that each reflect specific understandings of the Dutch web situated in a particular context, specified through social structure, scope, and time.
University of Groningen, Netherlands - ORCID: 0009-0006-3044-8246
University of Groningen, Netherlands - ORCID: 0000-0003-1675-2998
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Chapter Title
A Decade of transformation discourse: Sociotechnical imaginaries of the Dutch web between 1994–2004
Authors
Nathalie Fridzema, Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg, Rik Smit
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2.15
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the 5th international RESAW conference, Marseille, June 2023
Editors
Sophie Gebeil, Jean-Christophe Peyssard
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Number of Pages
362
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0413-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0412-5
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979-12-215-0413-2
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979-12-215-0414-9
Series Title
Proceedings e report
Series ISSN
2704-601X
Series E-ISSN
2704-5846