CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Kosmidis, Hristofor |
|---|---|
| Title | The Soviet History Narratives On The Russian-Speaking Historical Internet Forums (2004-2020) |
| Summary | In this thesis, I study the narratives about the Soviet past, which are reproduced by participants in Russian-speaking historical Internet forums. Internet forums, the practice of people communicating while using Internet access, is part of the web history. Researchers identify two eras of web development: 1.0 and 2.0. The web in its first version did not have social media. People had to invent communication practices beyond e-mail. Forums with their own technical infrastructure and engines made it possible to create local communities in the global network. At the very beginning of forums' existence, messages on them went one after another, it was difficult to create coherent topic-related threads. The forums that are the sources of this study are structured into sections, subsections, and topics. This thesis examines the history of these forums: who and under what circumstances created such platforms for discussing history? An important part of this thesis is the analysis of the language practices used by the participants in the discussions, and a review of the sources of their knowledge. Discourses, along with language practices on forums, are formed both by the rules of communication and by the practices of using these rules and changing them. Soviet narratives were chosen for study because they are on the borderline between memory as personal experience and memory as a narrative of state history. What topics are covered by the participants of the form? What arguments are used? What influences the formation of the narrative more: group trauma or individual? I tried to answer these questions in my thesis. |
| Supervisor | Siefert, Marsha |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/kosmidis_hristofor.pdf |
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