TY - JOUR N2 - The following paper, in its sense, is a summary of the broad qualitative and quantitative authorial research on the historically-themed materials from the social media video platform YouTube. The main research problem dealt with the matter of the meaning of the historical narrative for the contemporary polish society and the specificity of its historical consciousness. 635 videos from 6 channels since 2013 till 2019 were analyzed. Authors point out the relation between the quantitative analysis of the videos’ topics with the current trends of interests in history present in the society. Functioning of the most popular videos’ trends were emphasized and its connection with their qualitative layer of the historical narrative. Further research on the hypothesis on the ethnocentric interest in history was conducted. Slightly advantage of the political and military narrative was observed and a little less advantage of the factographical and processual perspective in history which is the matter for the further analysis. Conducted research showed that interest in history on the YouTube platform confirms the special status of the XX century and II World War narrations in the historical consciousness of the Polish society. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116861/PDF/N%23320-06-Werner.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/116861 PY - 2020 IS - No 3 EP - 140 DO - 10.24425/nauka.2020.133740 KW - YouTube KW - historical narrative KW - Web 2.0 KW - entertainment KW - history A1 - Werner, Wiktor A1 - Trzoss, Adrian A1 - Gralik, Dawid PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2020.08.17 T1 - History and YouTube. Historical narrative in the age of Web 2.0 SP - 119 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/116861 T2 - Nauka ER -