Tag: Storytelling

  • Analysis, Editing, & the Via Negativa

    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…

  • Sitting around the fire with Team Z

    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…

  • Interview training resource: Learning to ask good questions

    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…