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Niels Brügger is a Professor in Media Studies at the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, with a focus on internet history, web archiving, and digital humanities. He leads the international researcher network WARCnet, the Centre for Digital Methods and Media, and previously headed NetLab and the Centre for Internet Studies. He co-founded the journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society and serves on editorial boards for major digital humanities journals.
- Education: PhD in Humanities (2000), MA in French and History of Ideas (1990), both from Aarhus University.
His research explores the historical development of the web, particularly the Danish web in the 1990s, hyperlink networks, and computational methods. He investigates how web archives can reconstruct digital cultural history and analyze public engagement with online virality and science communication.
Recent publications emphasize transnational web archive studies, comparative domain analysis, and methodological frameworks for combining datasets. Key themes include temporal web studies, digital preservation, and the role of web archives in historical research.
- Scientific Awards: Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), recipient of three Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Awards (2020, 2022, 2024).
He has advised numerous MA and PhD theses and led international collaborations, including the European network RESAW and projects like HIVI (online virality) and AWAC2 (COVID-19 web archives). His administrative roles span committee memberships for research councils, editorial groups, and digital infrastructure development.
