Digital Oral History in Higher Education with Brooke Bryan
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This document discusses doing oral history in the digital era. It covers: - Defining what is meant by the "digital era" and "digital oral history". - The opportunities and complications that digital technologies present for informed consent processes and managing copyright for oral history projects. - Resources available at www.ohla.info for digital oral history collections, tools, and tutorials.
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- 1. DOING ORAL HISTORY IN THE DIGITAL ERA INNOVATIONS, COMPLICATIONS, HORIZONS BROOKE BRYAN, ANTIOCH COLLEGE ORAL HISTORY IN THE LIBERAL ARTS WWW.OHLA.INFO | @WHYHERENOW
- 2. LOCATING MY PRACTICE Director of the Writing Institute, Instructor of Cooperative Education at Antioch College; IRB, Convener of Creativity & Story Strategic Planning Group, Co-Director: (OHLA) Oral History in the Liberal Arts Author, Oral History in the Digital Age, Collecting and Disseminating Groups (IMLS) Consider myself a fringe practitioner phenomenologist with an audio recorder (oral history as phenomenological-hermeneutics or even art) PhD: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art Theory (ABD 2019) MA: Oral History Methodology BA: Humanities, World Classics
- 3. WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY DIGITAL ERA? Living in a time when average people carry smart phones around in their pockets that are capable of recording the world around them in rich media Auto-ethnographic selfie generation rising while the Fourth Estate is troubled by syndication and fake news Private spaces and public spaces; Privacy and identity concerns with digital files Exciting array of tools and platforms that allow us to think about narratives in new ways
- 4. WHAT DO WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY DIGITAL ORAL HISTORY ? are we talking about the technicalities of digital files, recording speeds, naming conventions, and digital preservation? are we talking about what we can do with oral history when we think through the lens of the digital humanities tools, platforms, speech to text, algorithms, asking new questions of our oral history collections? are we talking about doing oral history in the digital era new gear, ethics, best practices?
- 5. OUTCOMES FOR OUR DIGITAL ORAL HISTORY TALK: Holds promise for use and access new kinds of finding aids allow us to move through media in new ways media as primary document, retaining gesture, intonation, etc. Opens up new pedagogical possibilities for teaching and learning with new tools Born-digital technologies impact decisions made during project planning, collection, curation, and dissemination The Digital Age Complicates Informed Consent
- 6. DISAMBIGUATION: DEFINING ORAL HISTORY AS A METHODOLOGY FOR QUALITATIVE INQUIRY Orality/ Secondary Orality Oral tradition Aurality Oral History/An Oral History Oral History Methodology
- 7. BEST PRACTICES OF THE ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION The standard for best practice methodology, from project conception to practice to archiving Prerequisite to major grant funding Co-constituted by a community of practice that is ever changing Be fluent. Articulate any diversion.
- 8. BEST PRACTICES OF THE ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION Oral history is distinguished from other forms of interviewing by its content and extent seek an in-depth account of personal experience and reflections sufficient time allowed for the narrators to give their story the fullness they desire grounded in reflections on the past as opposed to commentary on purely contemporary events
- 9. BEST PRACTICES OF THE ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION Oral historians insure that narrators voluntarily give their consent to be interviewed and understand that they can withdraw from the interview or refuse to answer a question at any time Narrators may give this consent by signing a consent form or by recording an oral statement of consent prior to the interview All interviews are conducted in accord with the stated aims and within the parameters of the consent
- 10. INFORMED CONSENT One cannot possibly interview another in the name of oral history without going through a rigorous informed consent process. The burden is on you, the interviewer, to communicate intentions go over brief project statement why they should be interviewed explicit understanding of how the interviews will be used and shared* how they can decide to opt-out, and when an opt-out is no longer feasible*
- 11. THE DIGITAL AGE COMPLICATES INFORMED CONSENT
- 12. THE DIGITAL ERA COMPLICATES INFORMED CONSENT Reveals a larger audience than your interviewee may imagine for their recorded narrative Makes it hard to promise access restrictions Opens participants up to more social liabilities than dark archive days Youll want to know what you intend to do with the recorded interviews (archive/website/facebook dissemination/personal harddrive with no access) before you begin recording them (informed consent)
- 14. INFORMED CONSENT IS NOT THE SAME AS COPYRIGHT RELEASE Informed consent is established through conversation before the interview. Many project partners or colleges will require you to get a signature. A release form is signed after the interview is recorded. Most releases legally establish your right to archive, publish, and make derivative works from the interview, excepting restrictions.
- 15. COPYRIGHT INTERVIEWS ARE DUAL COPYRIGHTED FROM THE MOMENT OF CREATION Interviewees hold the copyright to their interviews until and unless they transfer those rights to an individual or institution. All use and dissemination of the interview content must follow any restrictions the narrator places upon it.
- 16. INFORMED CONSENT IS BOTH LEGAL & ETHICAL WHEN WORKING IN HIGHER ED Community practitioners operate by best practices ethical and voluntary Practitioners in higher ed adopt these voluntary best practices AND must consider federal human subjects research laws
- 17. WHATS A HUMAN SUBJECT? A human subject is a living individual about whom a research investigator (whether a professional or a student) obtains data through intervention or interaction with the individual or from individually identifiable information.
- 18. WHATS A HUMAN SUBJECT? New federal guidelines exempt oral history, journalism, and historical biographies from human subjects law and IRB oversight (1/2018) This new guideline holds that oral history isnt research, because when we collect individual narratives we are not seeking to generalize knowledge
- 19. DIGITAL COLLECTIONS, TOOLS, TUTORIALS & RESOURCES @ WWW.OHLA.INFO