WEB ARCHIVING:

Niels Brügger

Aarhus University,
Denmark

Niels Brügger is Professor in Internet studies and Digital Humanities, and head of the Centre for Internet Studies as well as of the internet research infrastructure NetLab, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research interests are web historiography, web archiving, and media theory. Within these fields he has published monographs and a number of edited books as well as articles and book chapters. Recent publications include Web25, a themed issue of New Media & Society, The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present (edited with Ralph Schroeder, UCL Press 2017), and Web 25: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web (Peter Lang 2017). He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the newly founded international journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Taylor & Francis/Routledge).

Mark Graham

The Internet Archive

Mark Graham has created and managed innovative online products and services since 1984. As Director of the Wayback Machine, at the Internet Archive, he is responsible for capturing, preserving more than 1 billion new web archives each week and helping millions of people discover and use them, Mark was most recently Senior Vice President with NBC News where he managed several business units including GardenWeb and Stringwire, a live, mobile, video platform for collaborative citizen reporting. Mark was Senior Vice President of Technology with iVillage, an early Internet company that focused on women and community. He co-founded Rojo Networks, one of the first large-scale feed aggregators and personalized blog readers (sold to Six Apart.) In the early days of the net he managed technology and business development at The WELL and led their effort to build the first web-based interface for online forums, and also helped bring the pre-web Internet to millions of people by running AOL's Gopher project as part of their Internet Center. He managed technology for the pioneering US-Soviet Sovam Teleport email service and co-founded and managed PeaceNet, one of the first online communities for progressive social change, and later IGC.org, one of the world first ISPs. He also co-founded the global NGO, APC.org. Mark's early training and experience with computer-mediated communications was acquired while he served in the US Air Force, spending more than 3 years working at the Air Force Data Services Center at the Pentagon. Mark's nonprofit work includes volunteering with the open education library http://oercommons.org and as an advisor to http://openrecoverysf.org

Anat Ben David

The Open University of Israel

Anat Ben-David is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication. She is co-founder of the Open University's Open Media and Information Lab (OMILab). Focusing on New Media, her primary research interests are history and geopolitics of the Web, Digital STS, social and political studies of social media, and digital and computational methods for Web research.

Sally Chambers

Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium

Sally Chambers is Digital Humanities Research Coordinator at Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities , Ghent University, where she coordinates Belgian participation in DARIAH, the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities. Her role in the PROMISE project is related to the provision of research access and use of the pilot Belgian web-archive.

Dana Diminescu

Telecom Paris Tech

Dana Diminescu is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in sociology at Télécom ParisTech engineering school. At present she is director of DiasporasLab and member of the Cultural Analytics programm at IPAM/UCLA .She is known for her work on the “connected migrant”, (her empirical work enabled her to approach varied fields ranging from uses of mobile phone and voice IT, Internet, m-transactions by migrants in a variety of transnational and local use situations: mobility and mobilisation, integration strategies, cross-bordering, web diasporas, ethnic business, migration lifecycles) and for a number of epistemological and methodological innovations in her research, questioning classical theories in migration studies. In particular, she designed and co-ordinated the e-Diasporas Atlas project, which was first runner up of its category for the 2012 Digital Humanities Awards. Websites:
http://www.e-diasporas.fr/
https://remi.revues.org/6961
http://ssi.sagepub.com/content/51/4.toc

Kevin Driscoll

University of Virginia

Kevin Driscoll is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. His research explores popular culture, political communication, and networked personal computing. Last year, he published a technical and cultural history of the French Minitel system with Julien Mailland from Indiana University. Currently, he is writing a book tracing the pre-history of social media through the dial-up bulletin board systems of the 1980s and 1990s.

Eran Soroka

Channel TEN

Eran Soroka is the Chief Editor of 10.TV - the website of Channel 10, one of Israel's commercial channels. In 2013, after 17 years of working as a reporter, editor and Sports Chief Editor in both print and web, Soroka joined Channel 10 as Head of Digital News Desk, and in 2016 was appointed as the site's Chief Editor, while also being in charge of replacing the channel's digital platform to a new and better site. Soroka obtained his MA from Tel Aviv University in Political Communication in 2009, after obtaining a BA in Communication and Political Science in 2006. In 2010, he also participated in the US State Dept's IVLP (International Visitors Leadership Program) for journalists. In his daily work, as he did in his studies, Soroka explores and experiences first-hand the rapidly changing world of digital media.

Sophie Gebeil

University of Marseilles

Dr. Sophie Gebeil is a senior lecturer in contemporary history at Aix Marseille University (France). She teaches at the Higher schools for professors and educators and she oversees the «Visual studies and Digital humanities» workshop at the Telemme research laboratory (AMU CNRS, UMR 7303). She is working on how the past is portrayed online, through studying memories, and heritage from minority groups on French web archives.

Daniel Gomes

Arquivo.pt, Portugal

Daniel Gomes started Arquivo.pt (the Portuguese web-archive) and currently leads this public service. His PhD thesis in Computer Science focused on the design of large-scale systems for the processing of web data. He has been a researcher in web archiving and web-based information systems since 2001.

Anne Helmond

University of Amserdam

Anne Helmond (@silvertje) is Assistant Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Digital Methods Initiative and App Studies Initiative research collectives where she focuses her research on the infrastructure of social media platforms and apps. She currently holds a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the project ‘App ecosystems: A critical history of apps’ (2017–2020). More info: annehelmond.nl

Nicholas John

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Nicholas John is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the award-winning book, The Age of Sharing, which traces the emergence of “sharing” as a key cultural concept for the digital age. He also studies disconnectivity, in particular politically-motivated unfriending on social media platforms.

Quentin Lobbe

Telecom Paris Tech

Quentin Lobbé is a PhD candidate at Télécom ParisTech engineering school. He graduated from the University of Technology of Compiègne in 2013 with a master's degree in Data Mining & Data Visualization. Supervised by Pierre Senellart & Dana Diminescu, he works at the intersection between Social Sciences and Computer Sciences by studying digital traces of migrations through the exploration of Web archives corpora.

Claude Mussou

INA - Institut national de l'audiovisuel

When the Web Legal Deposit was implemented in France, Claude Mussou was appointed as coordinator of the web archiving activities at Ina. Since 2015 she is head of Inathèque, Ina’s department that makes all the collections available for research. (http://www.inatheque.fr)

Megan Sapnar Ankerson

The University of Michigan

Megan Sapnar Ankerson is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of the forthcoming book Dot-com Design: The Rise of a Usable, Social, Commercial Web (NYU Press, July 2018) and co-editor of the journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society. https://lsa.umich.edu/comm/people/regular-faculty/ankerson.html

Valerie Schafer

C2DH, University of Luxembourg

Valérie Schafer is Professor of Contemporary European History at the C2DH (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History) at the University of Luxembourg since February 2018. She was previously researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), where she led the Web90 project, dedicated to the history, memories and heritage of the Web of the 90s in France (https://web90.hypotheses.org) Her main research interests are the history of Internet, of the Web, of Digital Cultures and the Born-digital heritage, especially Web archives.

Marta Severo

University of Paris Nanterre

Marta Severo is Associate Professor in Communication at the University of Paris Nanterre where she is in charge of the Open Data mission. She is a member and Deputy Director of the Dicen Laboratory. She actively participates in the research of the laboratory by coordinating the cultural heritage, cultures and archives subject areas. Her research focuses on action research in social sciences through web-based data. Her research activities focus on two thematic areas: (i) the collaborative construction of cultural heritage and memories on the web and (ii) the digital representations of place and space. She counts several publications in national and international journals. She has recently edited the books Patrimoine culturel immatériel et numérique (L’Harmattan, 2017) et Traces numériques et territoires (Presses de Mines, 2015). Website: www.martasevero.com

Michael Stevenson

University of Amsterdam

Michael Stevenson is a web historian, and Associate Professor of New Media & Digital Culture in the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. His work is broadly about the roots and foundations of media practices, genres and forms that are considered ‘web-native’ or otherwise specific to the new media landscape. He is currently working on 'The Web that Was,' a project funded by the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), about the Perl programming language and the early web. He is still learning.

Peter Webster

Independent Researcher

Dr. Peter Webster is an historian of contemporary British religious history, based in the UK. He has published widely on: religion, politics and national identity; on evangelical Protestantism, and on the impact of the archived Web on historical practice. He is founder and managing director of Webster Research and Consulting, helping libraries, archives and universities provide better digital services for their researchers. https://peterwebster.me/about/