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Out now: Internet Histories, Volume 10, Issue 1-2, March - June 2026 Three articles are open access. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/1... Got a piece on web or Internet history? Submit to Internet Histories @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Niels Brügger #webarchiving

Internet Histories

Volume 10, Issue 1-2 of Internet Histories

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Out now: Article - Open Access Creating an academic journal about internet histories—memories of a beginning Niels Brügger www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Creating an academic journal about internet histories—memories of a beginning

This article looks back on the period that preceded the launch of Internet Histories, the new academic journal, conceived as a platform for the many histories of the internet yet to be told. It add...

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Out now: Book Review Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media by Niall Docherty Reviewer: Tyler West www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Out Now: Article: Mending the past, (...) early internet in Brazilian media, 1994–1996 German Alfonso Nunez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Mending the past, dreaming the future: representations of the early internet in Brazilian media, 1994–1996

This article analyses how Brazil’s early Internet was represented in two distinct sectors of its cultural field: television drama and print journalism. Focusing on Glória Perez’s Explode Coração (R...

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@internethistories.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Out now: Article - Open Access The making of the datafied web: media friction, (...) Volynskaya, Schafer & Pailler www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

The making of the datafied web: media friction, CD-ROMs and institutional data practices

This article analyses the material arrangements and institutional contexts through which data practices became workable in concrete settings before and alongside the rise of the web. It explores ho...

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Out now: Article - Open Access Object f(r)ictions: a case study of the Flash software platform Benedikt Merkle www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Object f(r)ictions: a case study of the Flash software platform

This article presents a case study of the Flash software platform, used for the development of internet applications. I will situate Flash within a media history of databases by examining its initi...

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Out now: Interview The datafied web: a round-doc discussion Bareikytėa, Gerlitz, Giessmann, Gray, Helmond et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

The datafied web: a round-doc discussion

Following the 6th RESAW conference held at the University of Siegen in June 2025, we extended the conversation through follow-up discussions with selected participants, including both keynote speak...

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Out now: Article - Open Access The loyal client: lessons from the past for the future of social media Lane & Zuckerman www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

The loyal client: lessons from the past for the future of social media

The client that is used to connect to a server serves a function that is almost as important as the server itself. The client governs how a user is able to interact with a digital system, the actio...

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Out now: Article - Open Access A decade of looking younger and whiter: archiving AR face filters (...) Lauren A. Miller www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

A decade of looking younger and whiter: archiving AR face filters and mapping the emergence of [‘digital beauty templates] across Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok

In their first 10 years (2015–2025), augmented reality (AR) filters have transformed from a nascent social media novelty to a ubiquitous affordance across most social media platforms. The ascendanc...

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Out now: Book Review The Inattention Economy: how women of Color Built the internet, By L. Nakamura Reviewer: M. Gonzalez www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

The Inattention Economy: how women of Color Built the internet

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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@internethistories.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Out now: Article The Great Game. How video games servers map Ukraine in wartime Françoise Daucé www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web or Internet history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

The Great Game. How video games servers map Ukraine in wartime

Recent research in game studies has been inspired by postcolonial critical thinking to denounce the inequalities prevalent in many video games. While such critical analyses are conducted by academi...

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Final reminder Call for papers: Internet Histories Special Issue: Interrogating Trust & Safety Deadline for abstracts 1 May 2026 Please see the full call for papers here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #webarchiving

Interrogating Trust & Safety

Explore issues on platform-side Trust & Safety, a professional field dedicated to user safety and platform integrity.

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@internethistories.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Out now: Article Evolving and exploiting Packet Switched networks in the UK (...) Smith, Miller & Norton www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Evolving and exploiting Packet Switched networks in the UK between 1982 and 2000

In this paper, we examine the commercial development of packet based data networks in the UK, primarily through the lens of the largest player BT. We describe how network portfolios evolved to addr...

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@internethistories.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Out now: Article Hybrid frontiers: resilient investigative data and media (...) the Baltics M. Bareikytė & J. Hiebl www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Hybrid frontiers: resilient investigative data and media practices and tactical avoidance in the Baltics

Today, a variety of actors, including traditional journalists, activists, and NGO workers, are using digital media and data to investigate emerging injustices, especially in the context of crises a...

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Out now: Article - Open Access Constructing the (in)security: sociotechnical imaginaries of cybersecurity in Ukraine before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion Mykola Makhortykh www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #webarchiving

Constructing the (in)security: sociotechnical imaginaries of cybersecurity in Ukraine before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion

The election of Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019 prompted a rapid digital transformation in Ukraine that affected different societal sectors, from the economy to politics and education. However, digitisa...

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Out now: Article - Open Access No digital networks without computers. The shortcomings of the Soviet (...) Felix Herrmann www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

No digital networks without computers. The shortcomings of the Soviet computer industry

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union struggled to develop a powerful computer industry. While it competed evenly with the USA in space flight, nuclear technology and advanced weaponry for decades,...

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Out Now Article: Exporting obsolescence: Canada’s Nortel Networks in Eastern and Central Europe Kayla Hilstob www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Jane Winters jane.winters@sas.ac.uk #webarchiving

Exporting obsolescence: Canada’s Nortel Networks in Eastern and Central Europe

This article examines the shared history of digital infrastructure between Canada’s now defunct telecom monopoly, Nortel Networks, and the newly independent states of Eastern and Central Europe (EC...

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Out Now Article: Assemblages of occupation: the politics of internet resource transfers in wartime Ukraine Vu Thuy Anh Phan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Niels Brügger nb@cc.au.dk #webarchiving

Assemblages of occupation: the politics of internet resource transfers in wartime Ukraine

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, internet and telecommunication infrastructure became one of the primary targets for Russian forces. While media coverage has largely centred on phy...

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Update: This article posted yesterday is open access. De-centring the history of the internet in the Soviet Union, by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #webarchiving

De-centring the history of the internet in the Soviet Union: computers, networks and the infrastructural politics of digitality in Lithuania

This article proposes de-centring the Russia-focused history of the Soviet computer networks by engaging with the developments in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Although in Lithuania the compute...

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Out Now Article: De-centring the history of the internet in the Soviet Union (...) digitality in Lithuania Eglė Rindzevičiūtė www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got a piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Niels Brügger nb@cc.au.dk #webarchiving

De-centring the history of the internet in the Soviet Union: computers, networks and the infrastructural politics of digitality in Lithuania

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Out Now Article: Networked isolation: Albania’s computer network history during the cold war and the transition Erik Da Silva www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got an piece on web history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Niels Brügger nb@cc.au.dk #webarchiving

Networked isolation: Albania’s computer network history during the cold war and the transition

The historiographical treatment of Albania often depicts isolation. However, its computer network history reveals the flows of information, commodities and individuals between Albania and the world...

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Out Now Book review: Digital Touch, By Carey Jewitt and Sara Price Reviewed by Till Heilmann www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Got an interesting piece on web or Internet history? Submit @InternetHistor www.tandfonline.com/rint20, or email Mg Ed Niels Brügger nb@cc.au.dk #webarchiving

Digital Touch

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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