Projects per year
Personal profile
Research
Research interests include media history, web historiography, web archaeology, web archiving, web tracking and issues related to privacy and consent online. Recent research projects have focused on comparisons between web archives and their holdings, large-scale historical studies of national web domains, and mixed-method studies of web tracking.
Cooperation and dissemination
On the board of the Centre for Internet Studies (AU), and a member of The Centre for Digital Methods and Media (AU) and the Center for Digital History Aarhus (AU).
Participated in the international networks and WARCnet (Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events) and RESAW (a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials).
Previously head of LARM.fm, a part of the national research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB (Digital Humanities Lab) and part of Netlab.
Keywords
- Multimediality/cross-mediality
- Text analysis
- WWW
- Historical method and research techniques
- Public service
- Text analysis
- Internet history
Areas of expertise
- Internet studies
- Web history
- Web archive studies
- Cross media
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Probing a Nation's Web Domain — the Historical Development of the Danish Web
Brügger, N. (PI), Have, U. K. (Participant) & Nielsen, J. (Participant)
DIGHUMLAB/NetLab, The research fund of the Ministry of Culture, The Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation (DeIC)
01/12/2014 → …
Project: Research
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WARCnet: Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events
Brügger, N. (PI), Nielsen, J. (Participant), Have, U. K. (Participant) & Jensen, H. S. (Participant)
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2022
Project: Research
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TRE: Transnational Radio Encounters (HERA project)
Nielsen, J. (Participant) & Jauert, P. (Participant)
01/09/2014 → 01/06/2016
Project: Research
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Køn og Voksenpædagogik,
Keiding, T. B. (Participant), Kronborg, M. H. (Participant) & Nielsen, J. (Participant)
01/02/2011 → 01/12/2011
Project: Research
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Comparing the holdings of closed national web archives through summaries
Nielsen, J., Maurer, Y. & Zierau, E., Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies. Brügger, N., Aasman, S. & Ben-David, A. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 52--72Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Exploring the evolution of .lu domain names through a transnational comparison: similarities and differences between .lu and .dk
Noguera, C., Nielsen, J., Maurer, Y. & Els, B., Nov 2024, (Accepted/In press) Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies. Brügger, N., Aasman, S. & Ben-David, A. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 73-92Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Quantitative approaches to the Danish web archive
Nielsen, J., 1 Aug 2021, The past web: exploring web archives. Gomes, D., Demidova, E., Winters, J. & Risse, T. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 165-179 15 p.Research output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Using mixed methods to study the historical use of web beacons in web tracking
Nielsen, J., 2021, In: International Journal of Digital Humanities. 2, p. 65-88 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Big Data Experiments with the Archived Web: Methodological Reflections on Studying the Development of a Nation's Web
Brügger, N., Nielsen, J. & Laursen, D., Mar 2020, In: First Monday. 25, 3, 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Open Access
Activities
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Experimenting with computational methods to study the historical development of tracking on the Danish web
Nielsen, J. (Lecturer)
4 Mar 2020 → 5 Mar 2020Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Winter school on web archives, Master in European Contemp. History, Université du Luxembourg
Nielsen, J. (Lecturer)
20 Feb 2020 → 21 Feb 2020Activity: External lectures and Examination › External lectures › Communication
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9th Tensions of Europe conference
Nielsen, J. (Participant)
27 Jun 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation af a conference
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Ambiguities of web and web recording
Nielsen, J. (Lecturer)
6 Feb 2018Activity: Presentations, memberships, ownership and other activities › Lecture and oral contribution
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Digital Methods events
Nielsen, J. (Participant)
16 Nov 2017 → 17 Nov 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in or organisation of workshop, seminar or course
Press/Media
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Podcast om supercomputing. Tracking: Hvem følger dig egentlig på nettet?
06/01/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Courses
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Digitale metoder / medievidenskabelige metoder
Karlsson, A., Kim, J. & Nielsen, J. 03/09/2018 → 31/01/2019
Course: Teaching