Filter
78
Featured
22
1
2
Topics
10
6
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Language
Document type
10
9
8
2
1
1
1
1
Countries / Regions
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Methods applied
Journals
Output Type
Oral History Theory
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2016), xi, 238 pp.
"Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of oral history theory in an accessible format. The book is structured around key themes, including the peculiarities
...
Remediating Orality: The Cultural Domestication of Video Technology in Kenya
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 4 (2015), pp. 479-495
"The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality
...
Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice
Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.
"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al
...
Doing Oral History
Key Guides
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. (2015), xvi, 347 pp.
"Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. The recent development of digital audio and video recording te
...
Storytelling for Social Change
In: The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), pp. 189-206
"This chapter argues that narrative can be particularly well suited to transcend the unhelpful polarizations – behavioral versus social change, diffusion versus participatory approaches – that have characterized and restricted global health communication to date. The chapter describes a series o
...
Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), xv, 205 pp.
"Exploring the developments that have occurred in the practice of oral history since digital audio and video became viable, this book explores various groundbreaking projects in the history of digital oral history, distilling the insights of pioneers in the field and applying them to the constantly
...
Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction.
...
Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
New York; Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xxv, 301 pp.
"Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology."
...
Oral History
New York: Oxford University Press (2011), viii, 186 pp.
"This title is part of the 'Understanding Qualitative Research' series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. There are three subareas in this series: Quantitative Research, Measurement, and
...
Peace and Communication in Post-Conflict Africa
Africa Media Review, volume 17, issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 1-126
Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory
London: Facet (2009), xxiv, 286 pp.
Towards an African Journalism Model: A Critical Historical Perspective
International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 491-510
"Much of the scholarly literature regarding theories of journalism practice is premised on the tenets of the western model of liberal democracy. To the extent that this model is held to be universal, it hinders the analytical theorization of journalistic precepts that have evolved locally in most co
...
Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.
"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom
...
Construyendo comunidades: Reflexiones actuales sobre comunicación
Buenos Aires; Concepción del Uruguay: La Crujía; Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos (UNER), Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación (2009), 206 pp.
Media and Identity in Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), xvii, 333 pp.
Littératures orales africaines: Perspectives théoretiques et méthodologiques
Paris: Karthala (2008), 439 pp.
Language in South Asia
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008), xxiv, 608 pp.
"Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teachin
...
Oral history and public memories
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2008), xvii, 302 pp.
"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a
...
