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Internet Histories (Hardcover)
Niels Brugger, Gerard Goggin, Ian Milligan, Valerie Schafer
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R4,441
Discovery Miles 44 410
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In 2017, the new journal Internet Histories was founded. As part of
the process of defining a new field, the journal editors approached
leading scholars in this dynamic, interdisciplinary area. This book
is thus a collection of eighteen short thought-provoking pieces,
inviting discussion about Internet histories. They raise and
suggest current and future issues in the scholarship, as well as
exploring the challenges, opportunities, and tensions that underpin
the research terrain. The book explores cultural, political,
social, economic, and industrial dynamics, all part of a
distinctive historiographical and theoretical approach which
underpins this emerging field. The international specialists
reflect upon the scholarly scene, laying out the field's research
successes to date, as well as suggest the future possibilities that
lie ahead in the field of Internet histories. While the emphasis is
on researcher perspectives, interviews with leading luminaries of
the Internet's development are also provided. As histories of the
Internet become increasingly important, Internet Histories is a
useful roadmap for those contemplating how we can write such works.
One cannot write many histories of the 1990s or later without
thinking of digital media - and we hope that Internet Histories
will be an invaluable resource for such studies. This book was
originally published as the first issue of the Internet Histories
journal.
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Internet Histories (Paperback)
Niels Brugger, Gerard Goggin, Ian Milligan, Valerie Schafer
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R1,289
Discovery Miles 12 890
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In 2017, the new journal Internet Histories was founded. As part of
the process of defining a new field, the journal editors approached
leading scholars in this dynamic, interdisciplinary area. This book
is thus a collection of eighteen short thought-provoking pieces,
inviting discussion about Internet histories. They raise and
suggest current and future issues in the scholarship, as well as
exploring the challenges, opportunities, and tensions that underpin
the research terrain. The book explores cultural, political,
social, economic, and industrial dynamics, all part of a
distinctive historiographical and theoretical approach which
underpins this emerging field. The international specialists
reflect upon the scholarly scene, laying out the field's research
successes to date, as well as suggest the future possibilities that
lie ahead in the field of Internet histories. While the emphasis is
on researcher perspectives, interviews with leading luminaries of
the Internet's development are also provided. As histories of the
Internet become increasingly important, Internet Histories is a
useful roadmap for those contemplating how we can write such works.
One cannot write many histories of the 1990s or later without
thinking of digital media - and we hope that Internet Histories
will be an invaluable resource for such studies. This book was
originally published as the first issue of the Internet Histories
journal.
Historians make research queries on Google, ProQuest, and the
HathiTrust. They garner information from keyword searches, carried
out across millions of documents, their research shaped by
algorithms they rarely understand. Historians often then visit
archives in whirlwind trips marked by thousands of digital
photographs, subsequently explored on computer monitors from the
comfort of their offices. They may then take to social media or
other digital platforms, their work shaped through these new forms
of pre- and post-publication review. Almost all aspects of the
historian's research workflow have been transformed by digital
technology. In other words, all historians - not just Digital
Historians - are implicated in this shift. The Transformation of
Historical Research in the Digital Age equips historians to be
self-conscious practitioners by making these shifts explicit and
exploring their long-term impact. This title is also available as
Open Access on Cambridge Core.
`This excellent book faces the difficulties of residential child
care with integrity. The emphasis on collaboration is both timely
and important since it is a major theme in the training of social
workers in the UK, where this book will be a valuable resource' -
Andrew Hill, University of York Residential Child Care is an
innovative book which addresses the specific context of modern
residential child care whilst promoting collaborative practice
within a wider social work setting. The book analyses the
collaborative role of organisations, field workers, parents,
teachers, and children, and stresses how these interprofessional
relationships are crucial to ensuring children's wellbeing.
Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice: " is founded on
fundamental social work principles, values and ethics; " encourages
collaborative practice by identifying how each professions' roles
differ; " seeks to dispel 'barriers' that inhibit effective
collaboration; " draws upon examples of good practice; " includes
views and experiences of children and young people; " integrates
relevant aspects of the social work Benchmark statement.
Comprehensive and accessible, the book includes learning outcomes,
activities, and case studies to help aid students' understanding.
The book successfully balances its theoretical context with a focus
on practice, making it an invaluable resource for students and
practitioners. It is useful for social work and social care
students, trainee residential workers, and professionals who have
an interest in working with looked after children.
Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available,
opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges.
This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways
these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage
knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps
humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work,
whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work
in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process
large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have
to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the
past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing
approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship,
show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of
questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective
opens up. Originally authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback
from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical
Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation
into the future.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to
resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a
vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for
the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested
individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized
newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to
see the value in digitizing their holdings.
`This excellent book faces the difficulties of residential child
care with integrity. The emphasis on collaboration is both timely
and important since it is a major theme in the training of social
workers in the UK, where this book will be a valuable resource' -
Andrew Hill, University of York Residential Child Care is an
innovative book which addresses the specific context of modern
residential child care whilst promoting collaborative practice
within a wider social work setting. The book analyses the
collaborative role of organisations, field workers, parents,
teachers, and children, and stresses how these interprofessional
relationships are crucial to ensuring children's wellbeing.
Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice: " is founded on
fundamental social work principles, values and ethics; " encourages
collaborative practice by identifying how each professions' roles
differ; " seeks to dispel 'barriers' that inhibit effective
collaboration; " draws upon examples of good practice; " includes
views and experiences of children and young people; " integrates
relevant aspects of the social work Benchmark statement.
Comprehensive and accessible, the book includes learning outcomes,
activities, and case studies to help aid students' understanding.
The book successfully balances its theoretical context with a focus
on practice, making it an invaluable resource for students and
practitioners. It is useful for social work and social care
students, trainee residential workers, and professionals who have
an interest in working with looked after children.
The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big
Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new
avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book
describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to
construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching
and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in
order to do their work, whether that means understanding the
underlying algorithms at work in search engines, or designing and
using their own tools to process large amounts of
information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also
what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors
introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big
Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use
them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and
new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up.
Authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital
history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground
and sets the direction for the conversation into the future. It
represents the current state-of-the-art thinking in the field and
exemplifies the way that digital work can enhance public engagement
in the humanities.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to
resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a
vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for
the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested
individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized
newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to
see the value in digitizing their holdings.The companion website to
Exploring Big Historical Data can be found at
www.themacroscope.org/. On this site you will find code, a
discussion forum, essays, and datafiles that accompany this book.
The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big
Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new
avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book
describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to
construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching
and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in
order to do their work, whether that means understanding the
underlying algorithms at work in search engines, or designing and
using their own tools to process large amounts of
information.Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also
what 'digital' does to how we understand the past, the authors
introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big
Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use
them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and
new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up.
Authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback from the wider digital
history community, Exploring Big Historical Data breaks new ground
and sets the direction for the conversation into the future. It
represents the current state-of-the-art thinking in the field and
exemplifies the way that digital work can enhance public engagement
in the humanities.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to
resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a
vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for
the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested
individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized
newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to
see the value in digitizing their holdings.The companion website to
Exploring Big Historical Data can be found at
www.themacroscope.org/. On this site you will find code, a
discussion forum, essays, and datafiles that accompany this book.
The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part
of our social, cultural and political lives, 'new media' is simply
not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding archives of
information at our disposal, and the recent growth of interest in
web history as a field of research, the information available to us
still far outstrips our understanding of how to interpret it. 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. Bringing together
all the existing knowledge of the field, with an interdisciplinary
focus and an international scope, this is an incomparable resource
for researchers and students alike. Part One: The Web and
Historiography Part Two: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections
Part Three: Technical and Structural Dimensions of Web History Part
Four: Platforms on the Web Part Five: Web History and Users, some
Case Studies Part Six: The Roads Ahead
Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available,
opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges.
This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways
these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage
knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps
humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work,
whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work
in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process
large amounts of information.Demonstrating what digital tools have
to offer and also what 'digital' does to how we understand the
past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing
approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship,
show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of
questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective
opens up. Originally authored 'live' online with ongoing feedback
from the wider digital history community, Exploring Big Historical
Data breaks new ground and sets the direction for the conversation
into the future.Exploring Big Historical Data should be the go-to
resource for undergraduate and graduate students confronted by a
vast corpus of data, and researchers encountering these methods for
the first time. It will also offer a helping hand to the interested
individual seeking to make sense of genealogical data or digitized
newspapers, and even the local historical society who are trying to
see the value in digitizing their holdings.
During the "long sixties" - between 1964 and 1973 - baby boomers
raised on democratic post-war ideals demanded a more egalitarian
society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities
across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to
work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian
spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement.
While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new
brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were
pressing for wildcat strikes and defying their aging union leaders
in a wave of renewed militancy that swept the country. In Rebel
Youth, Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents,
demonstrating convincingly how they were part of a single youth
phenomenon. With just short of seventy interviews complementing the
extensive use of archival records, this book reveals a youth
current that, despite regional differences, spanned an intellectual
network from Halifax to Victoria that read the same publications,
consulted the same thinkers, and found inspiration in the same
shared ideas.
Rebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of
young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central
place for labour and class in the legacy of this formative decade.
During the "long sixties," baby boomers raised on democratic
postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a
few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90%
of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school.
There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth
revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists
combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the
New Left, young workers were defying their aging union leaders in a
wave of renewed militancy. In Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan looks at
these converging currents, demonstrating convincingly how they were
part of the same youth phenomenon.
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