Abstract
Web archives are rich resources for building knowledge in studies of rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine (RSTM). However, based on their unique idiosyncrasies as archives of born-digital artifacts, they also require careful consideration regarding methodological pragmatics and ethics. Here we build from existing web history and rhetoric literatures to offer three sets of tensions—organic/structured (discovery), close/distant (reading), and clear/obscure (reporting)—for informing the various stages in the work of rhetorical scholarship of science, technology, and medicine using web archives.
Keywords
web archives, research ethics, research methods, historical rhetoric, rhetoric of science, rhetoric of medicine, rhetoric of technology
How to Cite
Coleman, M. C., Bloomfield, E. F., Mari, W., Miller, M. P. & Cerino, A. S., (2026) “Web Archives and Historicizing Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Reflecting on Some Pragmatic and Ethical Considerations”, POROI 20(1): 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/2151-2957.33951
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