Proposing methods to explore the evolution of the term ‘mHealth’ on the Danish Web archive

Antoinette Fage-Butler; Loni Kraus Ledderer; Niels Brügger

doi:10.5210/fm.v27i1.11675

Proposing methods to explore the evolution of the term ‘mHealth’ on the Danish Web archive

Antoinette Fage-Butler^*, Loni Kraus Ledderer, Niels Brügger

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This article uses Internet archives to explore the emergence and spread of the term ‘mHealth’ (mobile health technologies) in the Danish Web domain from 2006 to 2018, focusing on the actors that contributed to its evolution. We propose three methods for investigating the Web pages and Web sites that employed the term ‘mHealth’. Our findings highlight temporal developments in the use of ‘mHealth’, with diverse actors using it, though none clearly dominated. The article attends to challenges in working with Web archive data, and presents methods that can be used by others wishing to engage empirically with Internet archives, which remain vast, but largely under-exploited resources.

Original language	English
Journal	First Monday
Volume	27
Issue	1
ISSN	1396-0466
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i1.11675
Publication status	Published - 11 Jan 2022

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