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What are the differences between oral history for a general audience and a specific audience?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Theories about oral history narrated by artificial intelligence
Theory Eight: The Prior Trust Contract
Oral history, more than being an accumulation of narratives, is a field of methodical dialogue between memory, power, ethics, and representation. In the meantime, one of the challenges for researchers in this field is to move from “interview report” to “theoretical structure”; a question to which each expert, based on his or her experience and intellectual framework, gives a different answer.Experts Answer to Oral History Questions
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Should the interviewer point out inconsistencies in the narrative to the narrator during the interview?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Fundamental Questions in the Field of Oral History - 1
10 Fundamental Questions in Oral History
This text was received at the request of the Iranian Oral History website and in response to the "Call for Fundamental Questions in the Field of Oral History". In it, the author raised 10 key questions that he believes every researcher, interviewer, and person interested in oral history should think about, and wrote an answer for each question in about 200 words.Experts Answer to Oral History Questions
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How should the interviewer deal with the interviewees body language, including silence?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Experts Answer to Oral History Questions
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How long after the event, should the narrators memories be recorded?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Experts answer to oral history questions
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Are children and teenagers, suitable narrators for oral history projects?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are given at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all the answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Experts Answer to Oral History Questions
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Can new media technologies such as AI be used in oral history? In which areas and to what extent?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Experts Answer to Oral History Questions
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What is the researchers duty towards the narrators confidential (security-political) information?
We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.Seventh Theory: The evolutionary duality of document and narrative
Oral history, more than an accumulation of narratives, is a field of methodical dialogue between memory, power, ethics, and representation. In the meantime, one of the challenges for researchers in this field is to move from “interview report” to “theoretical structure,” a question to which each expert, based on their own experience and intellectual framework, give a different answer.1
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Call for Fundamental Questions in the Field of Oral History
The Oral History of Iran website invites all researchers, experts, professors, and activists in the field of oral history to share their views and experiences with the audience on the most important questions in this field. We ask you to raise a maximum of 10 fundamental questions in the field of oral history that every researcher, interviewer, and oral history enthusiast should think about, and write an answer for each in about 200 words.100 Questions / 43
How can narrators and interviewers reach a common understanding?We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.
Documentary Pathology of the US Embassy Documents
The Necessity of Scientific Rereading and Content Analysis of DocumentsMore than four decades have passed since the publication of the first collections of documents from the US Embassy in Tehran. However, despite the relatively easy access to this treasure trove of documents, systematic research exploitation of it has not been adequate. We still do not have a “comprehensive picture” of the content of these 11,000 documents.
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What is the importance of the narrator and interviewers shared understanding of the past in oral history?We asked several researchers and activists in the field of oral history to express their views on oral history questions. The names of each participant are listed at the beginning of their answers, and the text of all the answers will be published on this portal by the end of the week.
