Webwashing the Tourism Plantation: Using Historic Websites to View Changes In the Representation of Slavery At Tourism Plantations

Authors

Candace Forbes Bright, University of Southern MississippiFollow
David L. Butler, University of Southern MississippiFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2-11-2015

Department

Political Science, International Development, and International Affairs

School

Social Science and Global Studies

Abstract

Museums and other commemorative sites rely on their websites to represent their mission, exhibits, and other information for potential visitors. These representations change through time requiring researchers interested in such change to work with Internet archival services. Using changes in how enslaved people are represented at plantation tourism sites in the United States as their case study, Candace Bright and David Butler provide a detailed procedure for finding, capturing, and quantitatively analyzing past versions of websites found on the Wayback Machine™, an Internet site that allows researchers to explore billions of web pages archived since 1996.

Publication Title

Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies

First Page

31

Last Page

47

Recommended Citation

Bright, C., Butler, D. (2015). Webwashing the Tourism Plantation: Using Historic Websites to View Changes In the Representation of Slavery At Tourism Plantations. Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies, 31-47.
Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/19754