<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/13-july-2022">Seminar #4 - 13 July 2022</a>
Multimodal Digital Oral History
Speakers:<br /><ul><li><span>Machteld Venken (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)</span></li>
<li><span>Elspeth Brown (University of Toronto, Canada)</span></li>
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<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/13-july-2022">https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/13-july-2022</a>
<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/22-june-2022">Seminar #2 – 22 June 2022</a>
Multimodal Digital Oral History
Speaker:
• Tanya Clement (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/22-june-2022">https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/22-june-2022</a>
<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/8-june-2022">Seminar #1 – 8 June 2022</a>
Multimodal Digital Oral History
Speakers:
• Douglas Lambert (University at Buffalo, United States)
• Alexander Freund (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/8-june-2022">https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/8-june-2022</a>
<p><a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/6-july-2022">Seminar #3 - 6 July 2022</a></p>
Multimodal Digital Oral History
Speakers:<br /><ul><li>Almila Akdag Salah & Francisca Pessanha<span><span>, (Utrecht University, Netherlands)</span></span></li>
<li>Myriam Fellous-Sigrist (King's College London, United Kingdom)</li>
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<a href="https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/6-july-2022">https://multimodaldigitaloralhistory.omeka.net/6-july-2022</a>
Exploring the possibilities of Thomson’s fourth paradigm transformation—The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history?
This article seeks to reorientate ‘digital oral history’ towards a new research paradigm, Multimodal Digital Oral History (MDOH), and in so doing it seeks to build upon Alistair Thomson’s (Thomson, A., 2007, Four paradigm transformations in oral history. Oral History Review, 34(1): 49–70.) characterization of a ‘dizzying digital revolution’ and paradigmatic transformation in oral history (OH). Calling for a recalibration of the current dominance of the textual transcript, and for active engagement with the oral, aural, and sonic affordances of both retro-digitized and born digital OH (DOH) collections, we call for a re-orientation of the digital from passive to generative and self-reflexive in the human–machine study of spoken word recordings. First, we take stock of the field of DOH as it is currently conceived and the ways in which it has or has not answered calls for a return to the orality of the interview by digital means. Secondly, we address the predominant trend of working with transcriptions in digital analysis of spoken word recordings and the tools being used by oral historians. Thirdly, we ask about the emerging possibilities—tools and experimental methodologies—for sonic analysis of spoken word collections within and beyond OH, looking to intersections with digital humanities, sociolinguistics, and sound studies. Lastly, we consider ethical questions and practicalities concomitant with data-driven methods, analyses and technologies like AI for the study of sonic research artefacts, reflections that dovetail with digital hermeneutics and digital tool criticism and point towards a new MDOH departure, a sub-field that has potential to inform the many fields that seek patterns in audio, audio-visual, and post-textual materials, serially and at scale.
Hannah K Smyth, Julianne Nyhan, Andrew Flinn
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2023
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac094">https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac094</a>
Seminar #5 - 20 July 2022
Multimodal Digital Oral History
Speakers:<br /><ul><li>Sharon Webb (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)</li>
<li>Tara Brabazon (Flinders University, Australia)</li>
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