New Media & Society Special Section: The Web’s first 25 years August 2016; Vol. 18, No. 7

New Media & Society
Special Section: The Web’s first 25 years
August 2016; Vol. 18, No. 7


Introduction
Introduction: The Web’s first 25 years
Niels Brügger

Articles
How the Web was told: Continuity and change in the founding fathers’ narratives on the origins of the World Wide Web
Paolo Bory, Eleonora Benecchi, and Gabriele Balbi

The cybercultural moment and the new media field
Michael Stevenson

What does the Web remember of its deleted past? An archival reconstruction of the former Yugoslav top-level domain
Anat Ben-David

This is the future: A reconstruction of the UK business web space (1996–2001)
Marta Musso and Francesco Merletti

The “Web of pros” in the 1990s: The professional acclimation of the World Wide Web in France
Valérie Schafer and Benjamin G. Thierry

The net as a knowledge machine: How the Internet became embedded in research
Eric T Meyer, Ralph Schroeder, and Josh Cowls

Review Essay
Optimism and pessimism about the democratic potential of media
Matthew P McAllister

Book Reviews
The marvelous clouds: Toward a philosophy of elemental media
Lars Nyre

Feminist surveillance studies
Andrea Braithwaite

Articles
Modern communication technologies and the extension of the territory of struggle: Conceptualising Tunisia’s jasmine revolution
Mathieu Rousselin

Power/freedom on the dark web: A digital ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network
Robert W Gehl

The common sense of dependence on smartphone: A comparison between digital natives and digital immigrants
Juyeon Ahn and Yoonhyuk Jung

Avatars are (sometimes) people too: Linguistic indicators of parasocial and social ties in player–avatar relationships
Jaime Banks and Nicholas David Bowman

The social mediascape of transnational Korean pop culture: Hallyu 2.0 as spreadable media practice
Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon

“It’s just not that exciting anymore”: The changing centrality of SMS in the everyday lives of young Danes
Troels Fibæk Bertel and Rich Ling

Determinants and consequences of Facebook feature use
Cheng-Yu Lai and Heng-Li Yang

Rethinking the participatory web: A history of HotWired’s “new publishing paradigm,” 1994–1997
Michael Stevenson

“Fair use is legal use”: Copyright negotiations and strategies in the fan-vidding community
Katharina Freund

Rethinking China’s Internet censorship: The practice of recoding and the politics of visibility
Fan Yang

Valence-based homophily on Twitter: Network Analysis of Emotions and Political Talk in the 2012 Presidential Election
Itai Himelboim, Kaye D Sweetser, Spencer F Tinkham, Kristen Cameron, Matthew Danelo, and Kate West