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July 2, 2025

Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 1-2 is now online

To whom it may concern,

The Editorial Staff of Internet Histories is pleased to announce that

Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 1-2 is now online.

Please notice: The entire issue has free access until the end of July.

This is a special double issue: Gender in Internet and Web History

Guest Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards & Janet Abbate

The full issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9/1-2

A list of the content is included below.

With kind regards on behalf of the editorial team,

Asger Harlung, editorial assistant, Internet Histories


List of articles in Vol. 9(1-2):

Introduction: (re)writing gender in Internet histories

  • Leopoldina Fortunati, Autumn Edwards & Janet Abbate

Articles:

“She does a good job for a woman” – the challenges for women enablers in the era of internet histories

  • Jane Vincent

Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013–2023) | Open Access

  • Steve Jankowski

Gendering of the “ideal user” in 1990s-era internet magazines

  • Will Mari & Fanny Ramirez

The politics of the digital transition: lessons from slash fan fiction communities at the turn of the millennium

  • Anne Kustritz

Digital pioneers: Mormon mommy bloggers and building the “Bloggernacle”

  • Emily Lynell Edwards

Streaming out of the spiral of silence. Women’s visibility in gaming community and on twitch

  • Roberto Carradore & Tiziana Pirola

Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE

  • Kat Brewster

(Un)scaffolding gender: social media and the evolution of nonbinary identity

  • Shell Avenant

How have you modelled my gender? Reconstructing the history of gender representation in Wikidata | Open Access

  • Beatrice Melis, Marta Fioravanti, Chiara Paolini & Daniele Metilli

Doing LGBTQ internet histories justice: a queer web archive manifesto | Open Access

  • Jesper Verhoef

Dwelling with feminist media archives in the age of big data | Open Access

  • Shana MacDonald, Brianna Wiens & Nick Ruest

Roundtable:

Researching gender in the history of the Internet and the Web. A roundtable at the SHOT 2023 conference

  • Janet Abbate, Cassius Adair, Avery Dame-Griff, Autumn Edwards, Leopoldina Fortunati, Deena Larsen, Laine Nooney & Valérie Schafer
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