THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JUNE 3
PROJECT FROM PAGE 9
Moore and Landry collaborated to make the project come to life after seeing a similar social media reenactment of Quantrill's Raid last August.
Moore and history professor Nathan Wood created a pamphlet outlining the project and the background of the assassination. Moore was interested in the project from a young age and said he feels the assassination is overlooked in the events of World War I.
"I was watching at home [and was] so fascinated by what was occurring," Landry said. "I think there was a lot of buzz after that. There were discussions on how to commemorate World War I and someone suggested why don't you do one for Twitter, and I think that's when the seed was planted."
"I think Twitter is helping it to reach a younger audience who are actively using the platform," Moore said. "It's a way to give them a perspective of history that you can't get out of a textbook."
Most of the participants are volunteers and created profiles for the
important characters that are involved in the assassination, such as the Archduke (@ArchdukeFranzi), Chotek (@Duchess_Sophie), Kaiser Wilhelm (@Wilhelm_II) and Tsar Nicolas II (@Tsar_NickyII).
Aside from the key characters in the assassination, some members created their own personas for the re-enactment: the car, a dog who was a bystander and another duke.
The characters have been tweeting in the context of the assassination those tweets are also being translated into the original languages spoken by the characters. Some tweets are scripted, but otherwise the characters have free range over their messages.
"I think a lot of people are interested in the topic right now," Moore said. "World War I is very timely, it's the 100th anniversary and the events that occurred before and after have shaped the 20th and 21st century. This was a way for students and community members to express their interests by using tools like social media."
- Edited by Heather Nelson
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