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Using Web Archives to Construct the History of an Academic Field
Get PDFPoster provides a case study of the use of web archives in research. It documents how—via the combination of web captures, found documents, internal communications, and inquiry-based reading—a rich and detailed history of the digital literature field has been uncovered. It was presented at the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on April 8-10, 2025 in Oslo, Norway
Digital Literature: An Essentially Contested Concept?
No full textOver half a century since the creation of the first text generators and decades after electronic hypertext was touted as the future of literature, the internet has progressed from the domain of ‘avant-garde computer hackers, cyberpunks and hyperspace freaks’ (Coover 1992) to a mundane, daily part of life for millions, if not billions, of global users. With this has come a deluge of ‘vernacular’ creativity (Burgess 2006)—both original and transformative—that sees new works of digital literature posted online on a minute-by-minute basis, by people who have no idea what they\u27re producing... if what they\u27re producing is digital literature at all. Using W. B. Gallie’s idea of the ‘essentially contested concept’ (1955) as a framework, this talk will situate debates on what constitutes digital literature by examining various definitions, delineations, and dilemmas put forward by scholars and practitioners through the field’s relatively short lifespan. In doing so, a series of linkages will be formed, illuminating the opposing views of digital literature as they developed. A range of questions will be confronted, including: Is self-reflexivity and disruption to the technological status quo a requirement, as Tisselli and Torres believe (2020)? Is Skains’ digital fiction net (2023) cast too wide? And has the rejection of traditional literary genres fostered greater creativity… or allowed for the incorporation of works that shouldn’t be regarded as literature at all? Through this, a sustainable conception of digital literature can be formed—one that acknowledges the difficulties faced by the discipline, the reasons why some practitioners may reject or ignore the term, and the ways traditional literary practice can be exclusionary—before a passing of the vanguard occurs and the field risks fading away into the larger communities from which many of its exemplars are claimed. Reference List Burgess, Jean. 2006. ‘Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling’. Continuum 20 (2): 201–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310600641737. Coover, Robert. 1992. ‘The End of Books’. The New York Times, 21 June 1992. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/coover-end.html. Gallie, W. B. 1955. ‘Essentially Contested Concepts’. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 56: 167–98. Skains, R. Lyle. 2023. Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction. New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Torres, Rui and Tisselli, Eugenio. 2020. ‘In Defense of the Difficult’. Electronic Book Review, May. https://doi.org/10.7273/Y2VS-1949
Quality Assurance in the New Media Writing Prize Collection
No full textThe UK Web Archive is an online repository for UK based websites. Managed by the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries—the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University, Cambridge University Libraries, and the Trinity College, Dublin—the UK Web Archive's chief aim is to collect all UK websites on a yearly basis for preservation purposes. Alongside this, the archive also features curated collections on specific events, subjects, and interest areas, often created by experts within the field. Following the creation of the 'E-Publishing Trends/Emerging Formats' collection, two further sub-collections have been added. The first, 'Interactive Narratives', was collated and reviewed across 2018 and 2019. The second, the 'New Media Writing Prize Collection'—comprised of shortlisted and winning entries to the New Media Writing Prize as well as contextual sites—was proposed and instigated in 2020. This report will outline the contents of the collection and difficulties faced in the preservation of complex digital objects, as well as detail the quality assurance process undertaken in 2021
Vencedores do New Media Writing Prize 2022: “Anonymous Animal”, “Future is Uncertain, Memory is Real” e “Penrose Station”
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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