Social networking service in oral history research and education project

Tatiana V Pushkareva,Darya V Agaltsova,Elena M Shemyakina,Ekaterina Y Ivanova,N.A Orekhovskaya

doi:10.1051/shsconf/202110302014

Abstract

This article describes the experience of supplementing conventional Learning Management Systems (LMS) with Social Networking Service (SNS) aiming at analysis of historical memory of the Soviet past using the method of Oral History by Paul Thompson (1935). Opportunities of the Russian social network, VKontakte, were used for execution of research and education project: Family Memory of the Soviet Past (2014-2020) for students specializing in Culturology at Russian State Social University on the basis of Memory Studies and Oral History theories. This article presents the main educational and scientific results of the project. Using the SNS, the practical component of humanitarian education was implemented; the VKontakte project activity allowed involving student groups in researching; transcripts and photos were collected in digital archive, analysis and discussion were performed. The VKontakte network group demonstrated opportunities of international student research in post-Soviet countries, allowed students to master practical skills of acquisition and analysis of empirical data, as well as became an identification factor of a student group as a part of scientific community.

Highlights

Interest in the use of social media in the educational process is actively developing from the time of the first social networks emergence: already in 2010 the first application was developed and implemented for integration of educational programs and services of a popular social network [1]
An important milestone in institutionalization and development of oral history was the activity by Paul Thompson, who founded the Oral History Society and the Oral History journal
It will be understood that this feature of group projects of oral history using social media/services successfully develops and transits to a new qualitative level

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Introduction

Interest in the use of social media in the educational process is actively developing from the time of the first social networks emergence: already in 2010 the first application was developed and implemented for integration of educational programs and services of a popular social network [1]. A social network is a service for data exchange, the most massive type of online communications Due to their multimillion audience, the social networks present such opportunities for education as sociological surveys for scientific research, arrangement and execution of educational telecommunication projects, education in the frames of specialized communities of social networks. The system of social media on the basis of Web 2.0 technology transferred social communications to cardinally new level; over fifteen years of development of SNS/social media, new means of social interactions were allocated for common free access. All this is still little accounted for in traditional e-learning systems and in educational process in whole. Among the main advantages of social networks in educational projects, the following can be highlighted:

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