Ian Milligan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3089324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Milligan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Milligan |
| SIGNATURE | MILLIGAN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1470-7723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Internet histories fourth early career researcher award
The datafied web: A round-doc discussion
Following the 6th RESAW conference held at the University of Siegen in June 2025, we extended the conversation through follow-up discussions with selected participants, including both keynote speakers, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Jonathan W. Y. Gray. This round-doc discussion brings them into dialogue with Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, Sebastian Giessmann, Anne Helmond, and Ian Milligan, creating a space for interdisciplinary exchange. It re-ex…
From Policy to Practice: The Evolution of SSHRC Application Processes, 1979-Present
Drawing on a case study of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant application procedures between 1979 and 2023, this article highlights the shifting landscape of Canadian federal research funding. Through an analysis of application procedures and requirements, the article argues that changes in the SSHRC grant process reflect broader shifts in government priorities and financial contexts. While complexity and competition ha…
The third internet histories Early Career Researcher Award
Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope
Internet histories second early career researcher award
This special issue is the result of our second call for the Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award. For the second time, in 2021, the journal Internet Histories has invited any interested early career researchers (masters students, doctoral students, and post-doctoral researchers) whose research focuses on the history of the Internet and/or the Web, and histories of digital cultures — or any historical topic within the scope of the Inte…
Taking Quantitative Social Science History Out of the Silo
Journal Article Taking Quantitative Social Science History Out of the Silo Get access Adam Crymble. Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021. Pp. ix, 241. Cloth $110.00, paper $28.00. Ian Milligan Ian Milligan University of Waterloo Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 127…
Fostering Community Engagement through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience
This article explores the impact that a series of Archives Unleashed datathon events have had on community engagement both within the web archiving field, and more specifically, on the professional practices of attendees. We present results from surveyed datathon participants, in addition to related evidence from our events, to discuss how our participants saw the datathons as dramatically impacting both their professional practices as well as th…
We Are All Digital Now: Digital Photography and the Reshaping of Historical Practice
Visiting a reading room in the last five years is a very different experience than what it looked like even fifteen years ago: while a few researchers carefully read archival documents in situ, most are crouched over their archival documents with a smartphone or digital camera in hand, taking thousands of photos that will be analyzed upon return to their home institutions. With the advent of digital photography and less-restrictive archival polic…
Internet histories early career researcher award
peer reviewed
La historia en la era de la abundancia: Archivos web e investigación histórica
La década de 1990 puede ser considerada historia del presente?. A medida que los historiadores se dediquen a estudiar este período y los sucesivos, se encontrarán con un registro histórico que es radicalmente diferente de lo que ha existido anteriormente. Las webs antiguas, las redes sociales, los blogs, las fotografías y los videos son parte de la abrumadora cantidad de información digital que los tecnólogos, bibliotecarios, archivistas y organi…
How Can We Be Ready to Study History in the Age of Abundance? A Response
Ian Milligan’s History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (2019) presents and interrogates the challenges and opportunities that born-digital materials have for historians. Milligan argues that historians who wish to grapple with the archived internet need to think much more aggressively about engaging with digital methods and tools that can complement and extend the well-honed practices of close reading with…
The Sage Handbook of Web History
Historiography and the Web
Introduction: Internet histories and computational methods
The internet is a born-digital medium, but for a number of years many histories of the internet have used traditional non-computational methods such as document analysis and interviews (e.g. Abbate
Internet histories and computational methods: A “round-doc” discussion
This conversation brings together leading experts within the field of computational methods. Participants were invited to discuss “Internet histories and computational methods”, and the debate focused on issues such as why scholars of internet histories should consider using computational methods, what scholars should be looking out for when they use these methods, how the process of collecting influences computational research, what impedes the …
Internet Histories
Introduction: Internet histories
peer reviewed
Developing family-based care: Complexities in implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
In response to immense challenges facing children in out-of-home care in all parts of the world, there is a growing international trend towards the development of family-based placements for children in out-of-home care, away from large-scale institutions. This development of family-based care within a range of care options is recommended within the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (the Guidelines), which were welcome…
Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope
"The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding th…
A Haven for Perverts, Criminals, and Goons: Children and the Battle for and Against Canadian Internet Regulation, 1991-1999
Pour nous aujourd’hui, la quasi-gratuité d’Internet et la quasi-absence de réglementation à son sujet vont de soi. Le cadre de réglementation actuel a cependant été mis en place dans les années 1990, en partie par suite d’un combat concernant le rôle des enfants sur le Web. Conjuguées à un débat national au sujet de la cyberpornographie, les pressions du public ont conduit à de sérieux appels en faveur de la réglementation du Web pour cause de pr…
Rebel Youth: 1960S Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
During the "long sixties," baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form…
Moving Forward: Towards a rights-based paradigm for young people transitioning out of care
This article proposes that the new UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children usher in a new international rights-based policy framework for care-leavers. It acknowledges the global nature of the concerns, reviews a growing body of international literature and examines key debates, illustrated by policy orientations and practice examples drawn from the authors’ experience of developing Moving Forward (Cantwell, Davidson, Elsley, Milligan,…
Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997–2010
It all seems so orderly and comprehensive. Instead of firing up the microfilm reader to navigate the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, one needs only to log into online newspaper databases. A keyword search, for a particular event, person, or cultural phenomenon, brings up a list of research findings. Previously impossible research projects can now be attempted. This process has fundamentally reshaped Canadian historical scholarship. We can see…
Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 by Benjamin Isitt
Reviewed by: Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 by Benjamin Isitt Ian Milligan Isitt, Benjamin — Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. 458. The New Left was not as new as it might have seemed; it instead needs to be understood as having deeper roots than the more traditional narrative of rupture might suggest…
Developing family-based care: Complexities in implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
In response to immense challenges facing children in out-of-home care in all parts of the world, there is a growing international trend towards the development of family-based placements for children in out-of-home care, away from large-scale institutions. This development of family-based care within a range of care options is recommended within the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (the Guidelines), which were welcome…
Introduction: Internet histories
peer reviewed
Moving Forward: Towards a rights-based paradigm for young people transitioning out of care
This article proposes that the new UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children usher in a new international rights-based policy framework for care-leavers. It acknowledges the global nature of the concerns, reviews a growing body of international literature and examines key debates, illustrated by policy orientations and practice examples drawn from the authors’ experience of developing Moving Forward (Cantwell, Davidson, Elsley, Milligan,…
La historia en la era de la abundancia: Archivos web e investigación histórica
La década de 1990 puede ser considerada historia del presente?. A medida que los historiadores se dediquen a estudiar este período y los sucesivos, se encontrarán con un registro histórico que es radicalmente diferente de lo que ha existido anteriormente. Las webs antiguas, las redes sociales, los blogs, las fotografías y los videos son parte de la abrumadora cantidad de información digital que los tecnólogos, bibliotecarios, archivistas y organi…
Lessons learnt? Abuse in residential child care in Scotland
This paper draws on work carried out by Sen, Kendrick, Milligan and Hawthorn commissioned as pert of the Historic Abuse Systemic Review by the Scottish Executive in 2007. It considers the evidence‐based regarding abuse in residential child care from 1945 with a specific focus on Scotland. It reviews the context set for residential child care post‐1945 by the Clyde and Curtis reports, outlines how the residential child care sector developed follow…
What's the use of residential childcare? Findings of two studies detailing current trends in the use of residential childcare in Scotland
In Scotland residential units for children remain largely in the hands of local authorities. A reluctance to plan for and use such services as a positive choice results in many children being placed as a last resort. Two research studies gathered data over a six‐month period and considered seven local authorities' admissions to children's units, allowing for in‐depth exploration of the manner in which children are being placed in residential care…
Internet histories and computational methods: A “round-doc” discussion
This conversation brings together leading experts within the field of computational methods. Participants were invited to discuss “Internet histories and computational methods”, and the debate focused on issues such as why scholars of internet histories should consider using computational methods, what scholars should be looking out for when they use these methods, how the process of collecting influences computational research, what impedes the …
What Works in Residential Child Care: A Review of Research Evidence and the Practical Considerations
What's the use of residential childcare? Findings of two studies detailing current trends in the use of residential childcare in Scotland
In Scotland residential units for children remain largely in the hands of local authorities. A reluctance to plan for and use such services as a positive choice results in many children being placed as a last resort. Two research studies gathered data over a six‐month period and considered seven local authorities' admissions to children's units, allowing for in‐depth exploration of the manner in which children are being placed in residential care…
Lessons learnt? Abuse in residential child care in Scotland
This paper draws on work carried out by Sen, Kendrick, Milligan and Hawthorn commissioned as pert of the Historic Abuse Systemic Review by the Scottish Executive in 2007. It considers the evidence‐based regarding abuse in residential child care from 1945 with a specific focus on Scotland. It reviews the context set for residential child care post‐1945 by the Clyde and Curtis reports, outlines how the residential child care sector developed follow…
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, by Paul Mason
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, by Paul Mason, Chicago, Illinois, Haymarket Books, 2010, new updated edition, xvii + 305 pp., $17 (paper), ISBN: 9781608460700 Paul
Illusionary Order: Online Databases, Optical Character Recognition, and Canadian History, 1997–2010
It all seems so orderly and comprehensive. Instead of firing up the microfilm reader to navigate the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star, one needs only to log into online newspaper databases. A keyword search, for a particular event, person, or cultural phenomenon, brings up a list of research findings. Previously impossible research projects can now be attempted. This process has fundamentally reshaped Canadian historical scholarship. We can see…
Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 by Benjamin Isitt
Reviewed by: Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 by Benjamin Isitt Ian Milligan Isitt, Benjamin — Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. 458. The New Left was not as new as it might have seemed; it instead needs to be understood as having deeper roots than the more traditional narrative of rupture might suggest…
Rebel Youth: 1960S Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
During the "long sixties," baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form…
Moving Forward: Towards a rights-based paradigm for young people transitioning out of care
This article proposes that the new UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children usher in a new international rights-based policy framework for care-leavers. It acknowledges the global nature of the concerns, reviews a growing body of international literature and examines key debates, illustrated by policy orientations and practice examples drawn from the authors’ experience of developing Moving Forward (Cantwell, Davidson, Elsley, Milligan,…
Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope
"The Digital Humanities have arrived at a moment when digital Big Data is becoming more readily available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. This pioneering book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding th…
A Haven for Perverts, Criminals, and Goons: Children and the Battle for and Against Canadian Internet Regulation, 1991-1999
Pour nous aujourd’hui, la quasi-gratuité d’Internet et la quasi-absence de réglementation à son sujet vont de soi. Le cadre de réglementation actuel a cependant été mis en place dans les années 1990, en partie par suite d’un combat concernant le rôle des enfants sur le Web. Conjuguées à un débat national au sujet de la cyberpornographie, les pressions du public ont conduit à de sérieux appels en faveur de la réglementation du Web pour cause de pr…
Developing family-based care: Complexities in implementing the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
In response to immense challenges facing children in out-of-home care in all parts of the world, there is a growing international trend towards the development of family-based placements for children in out-of-home care, away from large-scale institutions. This development of family-based care within a range of care options is recommended within the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (the Guidelines), which were welcome…
Introduction: Internet histories
peer reviewed
Internet Histories
The Sage Handbook of Web History
Historiography and the Web
Introduction: Internet histories and computational methods
The internet is a born-digital medium, but for a number of years many histories of the internet have used traditional non-computational methods such as document analysis and interviews (e.g. Abbate
Internet histories and computational methods: A “round-doc” discussion
This conversation brings together leading experts within the field of computational methods. Participants were invited to discuss “Internet histories and computational methods”, and the debate focused on issues such as why scholars of internet histories should consider using computational methods, what scholars should be looking out for when they use these methods, how the process of collecting influences computational research, what impedes the …
We Are All Digital Now: Digital Photography and the Reshaping of Historical Practice
Visiting a reading room in the last five years is a very different experience than what it looked like even fifteen years ago: while a few researchers carefully read archival documents in situ, most are crouched over their archival documents with a smartphone or digital camera in hand, taking thousands of photos that will be analyzed upon return to their home institutions. With the advent of digital photography and less-restrictive archival polic…
Internet histories early career researcher award
peer reviewed
La historia en la era de la abundancia: Archivos web e investigación histórica
La década de 1990 puede ser considerada historia del presente?. A medida que los historiadores se dediquen a estudiar este período y los sucesivos, se encontrarán con un registro histórico que es radicalmente diferente de lo que ha existido anteriormente. Las webs antiguas, las redes sociales, los blogs, las fotografías y los videos son parte de la abrumadora cantidad de información digital que los tecnólogos, bibliotecarios, archivistas y organi…
How Can We Be Ready to Study History in the Age of Abundance? A Response
Ian Milligan’s History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research (2019) presents and interrogates the challenges and opportunities that born-digital materials have for historians. Milligan argues that historians who wish to grapple with the archived internet need to think much more aggressively about engaging with digital methods and tools that can complement and extend the well-honed practices of close reading with…
Fostering Community Engagement through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience
This article explores the impact that a series of Archives Unleashed datathon events have had on community engagement both within the web archiving field, and more specifically, on the professional practices of attendees. We present results from surveyed datathon participants, in addition to related evidence from our events, to discuss how our participants saw the datathons as dramatically impacting both their professional practices as well as th…
Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope
Internet histories second early career researcher award
This special issue is the result of our second call for the Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award. For the second time, in 2021, the journal Internet Histories has invited any interested early career researchers (masters students, doctoral students, and post-doctoral researchers) whose research focuses on the history of the Internet and/or the Web, and histories of digital cultures — or any historical topic within the scope of the Inte…
Taking Quantitative Social Science History Out of the Silo
Journal Article Taking Quantitative Social Science History Out of the Silo Get access Adam Crymble. Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021. Pp. ix, 241. Cloth $110.00, paper $28.00. Ian Milligan Ian Milligan University of Waterloo Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 127…
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