This workshop is for oral historians, activists and journalists who are interested in digging into the question of how to effectively and ethically using oral history methods for documenting difficult stories.
One memory technique I recommend, the story method, is useful for remembering lists of items and errands when you're on the go.
Margonelli, a fellow at the New America Foundation (and recently a guest columnist for The New York Times on the Web), says she got taken with the subject while in Prudhoe Bay, researching a story on new methods for the cleanup of oil spills.
This course will use qualitative and quantitative methods for story engagement, assessment, and class determined research projects with practice exercises, artifacts, short papers and presentations.
Visible Technologies is analyzing how blog gossip grows from rumor to damaging story, as it seeks methods for corporate clients to counter the wildfires of digital disinformation.
This paper therefore suggests three possible methods for generating stories from unstructured data: clustering by voice recording, by location, or by time.
It's just that now, for the first time in thousands of years, we need to think more about using data analytic methods for developing stories.
We plan to explore stories in three ways: as methods for public health research, as processes to empower young people and structure new media curricula, and as polished outputs for wide dissemination.
In 2015, The Atlantic published a story about my research on methods for protecting data confidentiality.
Along the way, he describes some of my favorite parenting advice: research by Marshall Duke and Robyn Fivush on the benefits of family story-telling; Alan Kazdin's behavioral methods for treating oppositional and defiant children; Jim Thompson's program of Positive Coaching and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's ideas on the importance of grandparents in human evolution.
