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'Porn shock for dons' (and other stories from Welsh pre-web history)
Rhys Jones 
Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories
Swansea University Author:
Rhys Jones
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Abstract
This chapter examines the representation of a then-new medium - the Internet - in Welsh and Welsh-language magazines and newspapers between 1990 and 1996. It is therefore an exploration of the early social imaginary of online media. It examines the challenges inherent in writing histories of the ear...
| Published in: | Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories |
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| Published: |
New York
Routledge
2017
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| Online Access: |
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Global-Internet-Histories/Goggin-McLelland/p/book/9781138812161 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22075 |
| Abstract: |
This chapter examines the representation of a then-new medium - the Internet - in Welsh and Welsh-language magazines and newspapers between 1990 and 1996. It is therefore an exploration of the early social imaginary of online media. It examines the challenges inherent in writing histories of the early internet, before outlining the methodology used in the work carried out on the internet in Wales. The key themes within the newspaper articles are then explored in some detail. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the methodological limitations of the approach used, and possible means of overcoming these. |
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| Keywords: |
new media, social imaginaries, online media, Wales, Welsh |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |