Evolution Of Communication
In addition to our public school failures, and the tax-dollars being wasted on a declining educational system, parents may have one more concern about their kids schooling in the future. The trend of public networking sites consuming most teenagers’ time may seem catastrophic, especially when made their priority. So is it justified to use this new technology as a way of historians gaining historical evidence? According to the post “Archiving Tweets,” the Library of Congress will digitally archive every public tweet. Some of the responses on this post thought this was an excellent idea as historians can pinpoint archives needed in their research, but in my opinion these historians may actually have too much time on their hands to do this.
The tweets on twitter, from my understanding may be extremely irrelevant to any type of research, especially to pinpoint each tweet to obtain any type of evidence, but then again that is apart of an historian’s job description. According to an article on the Historical News Network called “Wikileaks and the Historical Community,” what historians collect from documents do not capture the whole image, and if the whole image is not there it is nearly impossible to paint both views to a topic. So how much of a picture can tweets actually give to a topic even relevant to be researched. If this does become a big emergence of historical evidence changing in a time of new technology then how would a student at any public school in the next 10 years opening their history textbook and coincidentally seeing a post made by their mom about her having to steal a pack of cigarettes because they could not afford any. Quite embarrassing for the student, but of course to the historian who researched this it might be the signs of the economic crisis during the time period of which the event took place.