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SOCIAL NETWORKS OF THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING INTERNET AS SOURCE OF FORMATION OF AN IMAGE OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN SOCIAL MEMORY OF RUSSIANS

Денисов Ю.П.
In article the problem of influence of virtual social networks on formation of an image of the past in social memory of citizens is considered. The purpose of article consists in research of social networks of the Russian-speaking Internet as source of formation of an image of the Great Patriotic War in social memory of Russians. The special attention in article is paid to the analysis of the communities devoted to the Great Patriotic War, existing on the most mass social networks of the Runet: “Schoolmates”, “VKontakte”, “My world”, “Facebook”. The author carries out the comparative analysis of quantitative characteristics of such communities for April 29, 2013 and for May 12, 2013. On the basis of the conducted research the author allocates certain common peculiar features of the communities studied by it. In the conclusion the author notes that the image of the Great Patriotic War is consolidating and central image for a significant amount of communities. In the conditions of globalization and virtualization of world social space the image of the Great Patriotic War has prospects to become one of dominants of historical memory for the new Russian-speaking cultural identity which was formed in it which isn’t limited by geographical boundaries and social barriers.