Opening up Snapchat to see a friend’s adorable Golden Retriever hold an egg in his mouth is fun. Researching about the devastation and pain of the Holocaust is definitely not fun. While I heard that combining something you enjoy and something you don’t enjoy can help time fly by, this is an exception. The use of Social Media and Search Engines for history research is not beneficial.
As a 19-year-old girl, I am well versed in Social Networking Websites, like Instagram and Twitter. However, using Social Media as a research tool was incredibly complicated. Since an estimated 2.62 billion people own a Social Media account, I hoped for better search results. However, I did discover that Spiegelman is the topic of quite a few fan-accounts on Instagram and Twitter, none of which helped my research. On Tumblr, I found an official account for Spiegelman’s WORDLESS! project, but Maus was only mentioned due to its Pulitzer Prize. Snapchat had no results. …show more content…
From an Alternate Comix thread, user piperson asked a few questions regarding Maus and Art Spiegelman. Piperson asked, if Art’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, was recollecting and sharing his memories during the time of the Holocaust, shouldn’t he be receiving credit and not the creator? Commenting on the thread, users Ben_Towle and N4th4niel replied that while the work is a biography, Art’s effort to pull together the information from his father into chronological order while sharing his portion of the comic deserved
As a 19-year-old girl, I am well versed in Social Networking Websites, like Instagram and Twitter. However, using Social Media as a research tool was incredibly complicated. Since an estimated 2.62 billion people own a Social Media account, I hoped for better search results. However, I did discover that Spiegelman is the topic of quite a few fan-accounts on Instagram and Twitter, none of which helped my research. On Tumblr, I found an official account for Spiegelman’s WORDLESS! project, but Maus was only mentioned due to its Pulitzer Prize. Snapchat had no results. …show more content…
From an Alternate Comix thread, user piperson asked a few questions regarding Maus and Art Spiegelman. Piperson asked, if Art’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, was recollecting and sharing his memories during the time of the Holocaust, shouldn’t he be receiving credit and not the creator? Commenting on the thread, users Ben_Towle and N4th4niel replied that while the work is a biography, Art’s effort to pull together the information from his father into chronological order while sharing his portion of the comic deserved