TY - JOUR A1 - Brügger, Niels T1 - Web History and the Web as a Historical Source T2 - Zeithistorische Forschungen – Studies in Contemporary History N2 - The web and tomorrow’s historiography. Since the 1990s the world wide web (or simply, the web) has been an integral and important part of the communicative infrastructure of modern societies. On the one hand the web has developed as a new medium in its own right, in continuation of other media types such as newspapers, film, radio and television. On the other hand, the web has been intimately entangled in the social, cultural and political life taking place outside of the web. For example, within the realm of politics the web has been essential for the extreme left and right since the mid 1990s (as a platform for discussion and mobilisation as well as for the diffusion of political ideas). And in everyday life an important part of modern youth culture has for a number of years been closely connected to such web phenomena as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Y1 - 2012 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1588 UR - https://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2012/4426 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 316 EP - 325 PB - ZZF – Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen CY - Potsdam ER -