On Source Study of Internet Materials: Approaches, Problems, and Prospects

Abstract

The article considers some questions of studying of the Internet materials as a group of historical sources. For their collective designation the term "network text" is used. Many authors (N. G. Georgieva, V. P. Bogdanov, E. V. Zlobin) believe that the very formulation of the question is premature: the Internet, from their point of view, is an environment that accommodates different types of sources, but does not generate such as yet; network texts in this case do not form a separate typological group, but amount to semblance (modification) of "traditional" (that is, primarily, written) sources. At the same time, today there is heard an idea that progressive digitalization of social life leads to emergence of "digital heritage" as a phenomenon, which,