Tag: Media
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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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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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Interview training resource: Learning to ask good questions
When you listen with curiosity to people talking about work they love, they get positively radiant. Crazy but wonderful day here in the research trenches at @TeachersCollege. — Kyle Matthew Oliver (@kmoliver) March 8, 2018 Interviewing people is kind of amazing, right? I’m inspired by journalists shining a light on our fraying democracy, researchers discovering…
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Resolving to be changed—by religious change
I’ve been doing the “year in review” thing over the last few days. As I look back on my year in media, the item that jumps out to me as the most surprising is a little video I made. Y’all and others shared it enough when I posted it to Facebook in April that I felt the need…
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Starting grad school (and a newsletter)
Pentecost feels like a good day to announce what I believe has been a Spirit-led discernment process: In September, I will start full-time Ed.D. studies (that’s doctorate in education) in the Communications, Media, & Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. I’ll miss being the digital missioner in the CMT@VTS, but I look…