Listening to the City

Oral History and Place in the Digital Era

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11078888
AutoresMark Tebeau (0000-0003-1733-6486, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen40
Número1
Páginas25-35
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Oral History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ohr/oht037
OpenAlexW2048476590
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

This essay explores the development of a mobile interpretive project, Cleveland Historical, that draws on oral history theory and practice to emphasize aurality as a key element in digital (and especially mobile) interpretive projects. Developed at the intersection of oral history and digital humanities theory and practice, Cleveland Historical suggests a model of curation that emphasizes a dynamic, layered, and contextual storytelling endeavor. The resulting curatorial process transforms the landscape into a living museum, one in which the community actively participates in remaking understandings of place and community identity. Of particular note, this collaborative oral history project provides a transformative way of understanding “place” and of moving beyond an emphasis on visual interpretive practice, in order to provide a deeper way of building interpretive stories for public humanities exhibitions on mobile computing devices.

Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Digital media · Digital Storytelling · Exhibition · Identity (music) · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Oral history · Pedagogy · Public history · Sociology · Storytelling · Transformative learning · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · Rhetoric and Communication Studies