Representation of G. Kamenev’s personality and works using technologies for analyzing internet resources and content

Abstract

   The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the writer’s representation in a public space, exemplified by the Kazan poet, Gavriil Petrovich Kamenev, who worked at the turn of the18^th–19^th centuries. The first part of the article analyzes the writer’s place in the historical, cultural and scientific context from the 18^th to the 20^th centuries, before the widespread use of the Internet as the main source of information in society. We have found that Kamenev did not get his rightful place in the historical and literary process, either in the works of philologists or in the mass consciousness. The only exceptions were such sources as the works on local history and the works of researchers connected to Kazan, in particular, E. Bobrov. The second part of the article presents the methodology and describes the tools for collecting data from search sites about the presence of the writer’s identity on the Internet. Among other things, the article postulates that the main means of analyzing the modern public perception of creative personality aspects are queries in search engines. The statistical data, collected from the analysis of the search engine output and content, provide information about the number of open resources, structure and content. The used methodology can be applied to other public personalities, primarily writers.