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“Listening is hard.” This statement, which can be found in the Center for Digital Storytelling’s credo, points to the obstacles that the pace of life and chattering of social spaces present to the listening process. On further reflection, however, it seems like a bit of a misdiagnosis. The existence of sites like CDS, Mapping Memories, […]  With the exception of The Interview Project, I was not as engaged by the digital media I reviewed this week as I was in weeks past. In some cases it was the content. In others it was the production. I read the mission statement and the guiding principles section of The Mapping Memories project before […] As I look at or read all of this week’s content I am becoming increasingly aware of this feeling of people’s need to reconnect with each other in a real way. It seems to be one common thread throughout everything we have looked at so far this term. In answer to this there are a […] Context. That’s the theme for this week, and the diverse projects we looked at this week are framed by the context of the human experience. Let me just start out by saying that I love the Interview Project. It reminds me of a column by a former coworker at the Lewiston Tribune called “Everyone has […] If “value” implies something quantifiable and therefore relevant to commercial purposes and “worth” doesn’t come with a price tag because a lot of it resides in the context of personal experience — as Henry Jenkins et al pointed out in the book “Spreadable Media…” — then we should certainly re-calibrate our expectations on the quality […] In looking at the work plan for this weeks assignment, I was drawn to the sentence “These approaches (stories) reveal deep relationship-building over time — skills that documentary filmmakers and community-based artists have been developing for decades, and are now taking online to mix old and new methodologies.” I realized I wasn’t familiar with the […] “I didn’t hear chaotic noise anymore. I heard the very particular words and voices of individual men, women, and children who had become real to me” said Wynne Maggi, one of the Center for Digital Storytelling’s workshop participants. To me, this confession of realization that her subjects had become real through her understanding and […] Question: If you were in charge of creating storytelling videos, how would you select the interviewees? Would you select them randomly? Would you select them based on the story that they want to share? Or, would you select people based on stories that you think your audience wants to hear? I ended up asking myself […] I am constantly amazed throughout this class that these communities of online sites exist. I grew up in the Southern Idaho town of Twin Falls where we had quite a few refugees. One of my close friends from Armenia had lived with her family in a Catholic church for four years before being able to […] This week we had to look into the context, specifically the context in which a story is being told to us by our subject or interviewee. The context can be the difference between a strong and powerful interview and one that is attempting to be that but loses all of its power in the transition. […] |
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