Web Archives

The American Folklife Center curates the Web Cultures Web Archive, which includes sites documenting the creation and sharing of emergent cultural traditions on the web. The mission of the Center is to document traditional cultural forms and practices, and the proliferation of smart phones, tablets, and wireless Internet connections has positioned networked communication as a space where people increasingly develop and share folklore. This collection, co-curated with scholars who study digital culture, captures a set of websites that document elements of the various digital vernaculars enabled through networked and computer-mediated communication.