This talk will introduce Strandgaard Jensen's five-year, ERC-funded WEB CHILD project, where they investigate how the introduction of the World Wide Web changed childhood cultures in South Korea, Denmark, and the United States from 1995 to 2005. Their investigation combines comparative and transnational history to study the Web’s relation to childhood on three analytical levels: conceptually, socially, and materially. In the project, they combine ‘traditional’ close reading of sources with computationally assisted distant readings, as they analyze a great variety of sources, including archived websites, Internet ‘guidebooks,’ children’s magazines, newspaper articles, oral histories, CD-booklets, and a three-country survey.
Here is a little bit about Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/hs.jensen%40cas.au.dk
Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch!