IIPC RSS Webinar: Scholarship with Web Archive Collection Data

The IIPC Research Speaker Series (RSS) focuses on the research use of web archives and features presentations of use cases, collaborative projects, and new tools for researchers. This presentation will introduce the work of scholars using web archive collection data to study current and historical religious social communities.

SPEAKERS:

Dr. Emily Lynell Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Educational Technologist at St. Francis College. Her recent publication, “Digital pioneers: Mormon mommy bloggers and building the ‘Bloggernacle’” applies cultural and quantitative analysis methods to web archive collections.

Dr. Anna Grasso is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Wales Trinity St. David for the DigitIslam project, ‘Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments.’ Her work focuses on quantitative and qualitative web archive data collection and analysis. 

Karl Blumenthal is Senior Web Archivist for the Internet Archive, where he manages the Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH) and supports partners in the Archive-It web archiving services.

This webinar will be chaired by Dr. Ian Milligan, Professor of History and Associate Vice-President for Research Oversight and Analysis in the University of Waterloo’s Office of Research. He was the principal investigator of the Archives Unleashed project and currently serves as co-editor of Internet Histories.