Author: Kyle
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Analysis, Editing, & the Via Negativa
Time to say a word about the final bonus episode of Becoming Tapestry! In Chapter 4, I finished laying out the basic methodological approach to my project. In short, I employed a form of narrative analysis to outline the documentary as a whole. The unit of analysis in this approach is what various theorists call…
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Sitting around the fire with Team Z
You wouldn’t think it would be that interesting to listen to people making a video over Zoom. Regular readers/listeners and people who have spent time with me will probably chuckle knowingly when I say that I don’t like making unqualified statements, especially about my own work. But I remember very clearly during my defense saying…
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The pilot of a dissertation that might have been
Before there was Becoming Tapestry there was … something else. I had planned on calling the series Faith Adjacent (read idea refresher here) in order to more squarely associate my dissertation podcast as a whole with one of the core intellectual contributions of the project. My tentative plan was to produce a more mixed-genre series…
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Good stories have conflict. Honest research has plenty.
Chapter 3 feels like the episode that got away from me a bit. At least that’s how I’m still hearing it. Even with good strategies for how to say “no” to a particular idea or piece of tape, I think it was natural that one episode before the big finish would become the repository of…
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Scholars Do More than Write
Part of what excites me about audio scholarship is getting to share and engage with other researchers’ ideas in their own words and their own voices. In every academic field in which I’ve studied and contributed (education, ministry/theology, engineering), I’ve always been puzzled by the disconnect between how research actually happens and how we recognize…
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Faith-Adjacent Spaces Are Where Religion Intersects Everything Else
If you’ve been following along in the story of my dissertation research, you’re probably enjoying getting to know Tapestry and their model for “starting with the work” in order to be and to become a community. But if you’re like me, or even like Tapestry’s co-directors as their organization has developed, then it might be…
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On the power of bonus episodes
When you write your dissertation as a podcast, there isn’t a great way to do footnotes. I do have some footnotes in my manuscript, at my committee’s suggestion. But I didn’t make any effort to register them in the audio episodes. Basically, I decided people who would care about footnotes would be willing to do…
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Introducing ‘Becoming Tapestry’
I made it! On April 13, 2022, after more than 1,100 hours of work on the project excluding coursework, a committee comprising education and communication scholars Lalitha Vasudevan, Ioana Literat, Detra Price-Dennis, and Patricia Martínez Álvarez accepted my dissertation as submitted. I will receive my doctoral hood May 23 in a ceremony at the Louis…
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Kyle joins Learning Forte
Note: This news is a long time coming to this website, but as you can imagine, I have been busy. So thrilled to begin this new chapter! Learning Forte has announced Kyle Oliver as a new Principal and Chief Product Officer. Kyle brings a wealth of skills and knowledge to Learning Forte with experience leading media-rich…
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Christ the Light reveals us
A sermon for the Feast of the Presentation (Malachi 3:1-4; Psalm 84; Hebrews 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40) Last Saturday, my wife and I were stuck in traffic. I’d been out of town all week and was feeling stressed and behind on my work. On top of that, we’d just moved, and there were a few more…