Abstract
This article is devoted to the use of social networks as a search tool for historical sources. The opportunity is analyzed to use social networks for surveying witnesses and participants in the considered events of regional history of the second half of the 20th century. This article also analyzes advantages of addressing social networks in the students’ projects to improve the oral history methods and development of professional skills of data search and processing. The importance of such joint activity of historians of various generations for patriotic upbringing is emphasized, the relevance of addressing online sources under the pandemic conditions is determined. The use of social networks as a means to replenish gaps in the set of sources is exemplified by the project devoted to social and economic history of Sevastopol. It is summarized that the most informative was the communication with Odnoklassniki network, since it is the leading platform in the Russian segment of Internet regarding the age group of concern: 46+. The methods of operation with social networks are not confined only by the oral history. A researcher is capable to study materials of profile groups and to detect unique photos. It has been concluded that it would be reasonable to perform historical research in social networks by interviewing respondents: bearers of historical memory.
Highlights
One of the main functions of history as a science is preservation of social memory, and respectively, the task of humanitarian knowledge is translation of past spiritual, industrial, political experience to present
This work is focused on such element of Internet space as social networks, which can serve as a search tool of historical sources
Vasil’ev analyzed the potential of social networks as a historical source and concluded that they could be used in this capacity, provided that certain principles were met [3]
Summary
One of the main functions of history as a science is preservation of social memory, and respectively, the task of humanitarian knowledge is translation of past spiritual, industrial, political experience to present. With the development of technologies, emergence of new data sources in free access, there appear new opportunities for search of materials and formation of a set of sources. This work is focused on such element of Internet space as social networks, which can serve as a search tool of historical sources. The research novelty is that Sevastopol and Crimea are not the regions with steady traditions in the field of oral history, contrary to Barnaul, Petrozavodsk, Vladivostok, Tomsk, Tambov, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. In these cities various projects devoted to oral history are executed starting from 1990s–2000s [1]. It should be mentioned that at present in modern historical source science the potential of social networks as a heuristic tool is not completely disclosed
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