Multi-layered archives of electronic conversations: how the past of the Internet becomes critically present again on Usenet Web archives

Camille Paloque-Bergès (1)

1 HT2S - Histoire des technosciences en société

This paper is based on two studies we did on Usenet archives as an object of analytical and methodological research: 1/ a genealogy of its successive archival processes, with the archived collections ending up in the Google Groups web service, put in perspective with an analysis of the reception of this first heritage initiative by Usenet users themselves (Paloque-Berges, 2013); 2/ our own collection and analysis of a corpus of newsgroups’ messages in order to research a chapter of the French history of computer communication networks, with a socio-technical approach inspired by the sociology of innovation refined with the perspectives of infrastructure and code studies; followed by an attempt at engineering the corpus for structuration, standardization and interoperability purposes

Mots clés: Usenet; web archives; born-digital heritage; digital document; Web history; Internet history

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Héritage culturel et muséologie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Camille Paloque-Bergès. Multi-layered archives of electronic conversations: how the past of the Internet becomes critically present again on Usenet Web archives. 2015. ⟨halshs-01239889⟩