Verrückte „Geschichte[n]“ in 280 Zeichen?

Authors

  • Robert Scholz Institut für Geschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Keywords:

Geschichte(n) auf Twitter, Historische Diskurse in Sozialen Medien, digitale Quellen, Ukrainepolitik in Tweets, Bundeskanzler in Kiew

Abstract

The waves of attention that rise on Twitter and then recede again after a short time do not stop at historical topics, quite the opposite. The daily topicality of the short news service allows a look at the past again and again, provided that its reference to the present lends itself to this. The fact that this usually remains implicit is due to the conciseness of the tweets: A maximum of 280 characters simply makes more complex classifications, comparisons or interpretations impossible. Instead, users who want to draw attention to the historical dimensions of current events and reach a large audience at the same time must limit themselves to well-versed impulses. Their recipients are responsible for their appropriation and thus also control over the network, which they spin around well-placed tweets with the help of different tweet types. On Twitter, thousands of users negotiate their respective ideas of the past with each other in a way that is publicly visible. An incomparably greater number are subsequently confronted with these communications and appropriate them just as arbitrarily. A short message service whose relevance to the present could not be greater thus generates countless conversations about yesterday every day.

Author Biography

Robert Scholz, Institut für Geschichte, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

1993 in der Region Hannover geboren, kam für das Studium von Geschichte und Psychologie nach Halle (Saale). Neben dem Studium arbeitete er in der Gedenkstätte für Opfer der NS-„Euthanasie“ Bernburg. Bereits seine Masterarbeit widmete er dem geschichtswissenschaftlichen Potential der Social Media-Plattform YouTube. Mit seinem Promotionsprojekt an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg möchte er die Besonderheiten von Geschichtsvermittlung und -aneignung des Kurznachrichtendienstes Twitter hinterfragen.

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Published

2022-09-30

How to Cite

Scholz, R. . (2022). Verrückte „Geschichte[n]“ in 280 Zeichen?. Medien & Zeit. Communication in Past and Present, 37(3), 7–23. Retrieved from https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mz/article/view/8142

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