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'They're still fighting the fight on Facebook': the landscape of social media remembering the British coal industry
Millar, Grace Curtis, Ben Perchard, Andrew
Millar, Grace
Curtis, Ben
Perchard, Andrew
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2024-09-02
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Facebook has become a critical location for discussions of the past and part of the cultural circuit in which oral history interviews take place. Despite this, oral historians’ discussion of social media has focussed on recruitment and dissemination. This article uses oral history interviews to explore Facebook remembering of the British coal industry: from groups with thousands of members to conversations between two people. Our interviewees referred to Facebook and those discussions of Facebook posts form the evidence base of this article. We show that Facebook memory practices influence how coal mining is remembered offline and use the metaphor of a landscape to demonstrate their complexity. We conclude that attention to social media’s impact on cultural circuits is a matter of urgency for oral historians.
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Millar, G., Curtis, B., Gildart, K. and Perchard, A. (2024) 'They're still fighting the fight on Facebook': the landscape of social media remembering the British coal industry. Oral History, 52(2), pp. 73-85.
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© 2024 Oral History Society. For re-use please see the publisher's terms and conditions.
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0143-0955
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The ‘On Behalf of the People: Work, Community, and Class in the British Coal Industry 1974-1994’ project was funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Grant.