Logo of the forum “historians” (“historycy”).įorum is devoted to historical discussions among students, teachers, amateur history admirers etc. To enrich the background of discussed issues some comments on historical events and their media representation are added in the narration. However, the magnitude and dispersion could affect the results. The moderators of YouTube, authors of h istorical blogs often provide links to the other blogs or historical sites (please follow the links here ) snowball effect is almost obvious when it comes to search the YouTube resources. This research applies the method of multiple categorization, discourse analysis, and snowball sampling (Babbie 2011: 208 356).
One can learn about the city past, about the commemorative events and entertainment based on history (such as reconstruction of historical events), but the city pages usually do not offer the place for discussion about history. The main cities in Poland provide on their internet sites popularization of their attractions, including historical ones (e.g.
The information about Polish history can be obtainable also during the search for touristic purposes. And again, this site is more for education then for discussion, although there are some opinions on the site. Another institute similar to IPN is called Ośrodek “KARTA”, and it is devoted to analyzing the newest history of Poland: materials collected by researchers such as photographs, documents, memories are available also in the net “Karta” has its own site on the facebook ( ). The turn in 21 st century is accompanied by changes in conceptualizing the past in our neighboring countries, and it seems to be crucial to understand the problems of politicization of the past. The old saying tells us that “History is written by victors”, although in Polish case we can paraphrase it into “history is written by victims”. Nowadays it seems that history could also be treated as a special tool (or weapon) for gaining political power. During the People’s Republic of Poland 3 period history was a political issue. The newest past means the almost 50 years of communism in Poland, that began in 1944 in the East of Poland with the liberation from German occupation by the Soviet army and Polish armed forces created on the territory of the USSR. A lot of educational materials are published here. The internet site of this institute is popular not only among researchers but also among politicians and statesmen it is also available in English (). Dealing with the newest past is the task of the special Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN) which grasps the content of institutional archives opened after the end of communism (). Polish national history is a matter of scientific research in a lot of Polish universities and institutes. The print-screen of with the material on the Wolyn crime and visible advertising using “uncle Sam”. The portal seems to be designed just for repetition: maps, “galaxy” of Polish kings and princes, bare facts in rather descriptive articles with neither discussion nor interpretation.įig. The articles present mostly „school” or „textbook” kinds of knowledge. This portal is almost without any comments the forum is inactive, even on its facebook version. Some of the sites mentioned above are typical educational sites, e.g. The first of this kind in the history” was located on the and inspired the discussion about dogs and cats in our everyday life (the news was about the part of figure of sphinx found on Asian side of Mediterranean See, “the first sphinx outside Egypt”, August 8, 2013). For example: following the CNN news, a short note accompanied by audiovisual narration and entitled “Mysterious discovery. However, these discussions are not very sophisticated, sometimes more than 200 comments revolve around peripheral, but sensational or funny issues. Moreover, history is present as an important and visible topic in socio–cultural portals, such as or Wirtualna, where surfers always comment the published materials.
All of these magazines are represented also on internet ( too nie-sieci-historii.html ) where we can find a lot of specially designed portals and sites devoted to history among them are also private pages (including blogs). Historia”, “Zakazana Historia”, “W Sieci Historii”, „Historia. Popularity of history is evidenced by the astonishing number of historical books available on the market and thr numerous printed monthly magazines such as: „Uważam Rze. History is probably the most popular scientific domain in Poland: “we, the Polish, care too much about history”, writes one surfer in his post.
0 kommentar(er)
