IIPC RSS Webinar: WEB CHILD
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.
Join us for our next session featuring the WEB CHILD project presented by Helle Strandgaard Jensen and Victor Harbo Johnston.
WEB CHILD combines the history of childhood and the Web to investigate how the emergence of the Web as a new interactive and connected medium with little adult oversight impacted childhood at the turn of the millennium (c. 1995-2005). To study the Web’s wide-ranging influence, three countries have been selected for comparison: the United States, Denmark, and South Korea. These were all digital pioneers, but had very different cultures of childhood.
WEB CHILD is an ERC Consolidator Grant project and has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Partners: Center for Digital History, Aarhus University
The presentation will be followed by a live, interactive Q&A session.
SPEAKERS:
Helle Strandgaard Jensen is Professor of Cultural and Digital History at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, and holds a joint directorship at Center for Digital History Aarhus (CEDHAR). She is the PI of the ERC Consolidator project WEB CHILD ‘Changing Childhoods in the Early Era of the WWW.‘
Jensen received her PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2013. She has since been a visiting fellow at universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway, Canada, and Sweden.
Jensen is the author of Sesame Street. A Transnational History (Oxford University Press, 2023) and From Superman to Social Realism: Children’s Media and Scandinavian Childhood (John Benjamins Publishing Press, 2017), and her work has appeared in Media History; Journal of Children and Media; Media, Culture & Society; Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth; The Programming Historian; and elsewhere.
Victor Harbo Johnston is currently a PhD student at the Department of History and Classical Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is part of the ERC-project ‘Changing Childhoods in the Early Era of the WWW (WEB CHILD)’.
Johnston works on the archived web as a historical source. His PhD project centres on making it easier for Historians to access and use the archived web as source material for contemporary historical studies. He works in the fields of cultural studies, media, web history, and digital humanities.
Johnston has formerly worked as a software developer at the Royal Danish Library. He holds an MA in History from Aarhus University.
