Fatos e Coisas de Antanho do Rio Grande: facebook, memória fotográfica e história digital

Abstract

This dissertation is proposed to study one of the most promising fields of scientific history in 21st century: the digital history. For this, this work used digital fonts, that were produced in the most accessed social media website of the world: the Facebook. Through a specific branch of this website, the group Fatos e Coisas de Antanho do Rio Grande, this present text cut for de Rio Grande – RS city, and specifically for one popular historic event of this city called “Carnaval da Colombo”. Through these sources – memories shared in posts of this group – analyzed with compute resources, was possible to learn about practices in this event and about the daily of this people. In this away, we want to have a reflection of the fundamental’s questions in virtual environment like how it works, regulation and ethical problems no yet resolved. Also, we want to evidence the possibilities of the digital while one allied to scientific history, both as a tool for research and for the popularization of historical knowledge.