***apologies for cross-postings*** Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives PhD-seminar organised by the Digital Humanities Lab/NetLab (Niels Ole Finnemann and Niels Brügger), Vejle, Denmark, 3-5 December 2012 Today the Internet is the medium which holds the most multifaceted set of materials documenting contemporary social, cultural, and political life. It has become the fulcrum for the general development of media, including mass media and a growing variety of digital devices. If the communicative infrastructure of society in the late 20th century was centered on television, it is today centered on the Internet. As a variety of digital media penetrates all spheres in society, they also play a still more dominant role for the social sciences, humanities and arts. They do so in three respects: as archives for contemporary life, as a toolbox for the study of all sorts of digital collections, including digitized collections of non-digital materials (often labeled cultural heritage), and as a means for enforced communication within all spheres of society. In this course we will concentrate on the first of these aspects, the role of the Internet and particularly on online and archived web materials for scholars studying contemporary political, social, and cultural phenomena. Read more about the course format, the venue, and how to enrol: http://netlab.dk or http://dighumlab.dk ------------------------------------------------------------ LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS May 2012 Australian internet histories: Past, present and future: An afterword, Media International Australia, 143 (theme issue: Internet Histories), Brisbane 2012, 159-165 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/2012-issues#143 May 2012 L'historiographie de sites Web: quelques enjeux fondamentaux, Le Temps des Médias, 18 (theme issue: Histoire de l'Internet/l'Internet dans l'histoire), Paris 2012, 159-169 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.nouveau-monde.net/livre/?GCOI=84736100583200& January 2012 Histories of Public Service Broadcasters on the Web (ed. with Maureen Burns), Peter Lang Publishing, New York 2012 Read more on the publishers website: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten... NIELS BRÜGGER, Associate Professor, PhD Director, the Centre for Internet Research Department of Information and Media Studies Aarhus University Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Aarhus N Denmark Phone (switchboard) +45 8715 0000 Phone (direct) +45 8716 1971 Phone (mobile) +45 2945 3231 Telefax + 45 8942 5950 E-mail nb@imv.au.dk Webpage http://imv.au.dk/~nb Profile at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/50a/555 Profile at Kommunikationsforum [in Danish]: www.kommunikationsforum.dk/Niels-Brugger The Centre for Internet Research http://cfi.au.dk The history of dr.dk, 1996-2006 http://drdk.dk LARM (Radio Culture and Auditory Resources Research Infrastructure) http://www.larm-archive.org