The Medium and the Message: Oral History, New Media, and a Grassroots History of Working Women

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      Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. 26 Austin Avenue, P.O. Box 337, Amityville, NY 11701. Tel: 800-638-7819; Tel: 631-691-1270; Fax: 631-691-1770; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://baywood.com
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      14
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Oral History; Class Activities; Learning Activities; Employed Women; Labor; Active Learning; Course Descriptions; College Faculty; Personal Narratives; Educational Technology; Web Sites; Computer Software; Internet; Electronic Publishing; Computer Mediated Communication; Video Technology; Primary Sources; History Instruction
    • Subject Terms:
      New York
    • ISSN:
      0047-2395
    • Abstract:
      In the Spring of 2000, Ruth Meyerowitz and Christine Zinni began collaborative efforts--inside and outside of academia--to enhance a course on The History of Working Women at SUNY Buffalo. Videotaping the oral histories of women labor leaders, they later teamed up with Michael Frisch and Randforce Associates--a research group at SUNY at Buffalo's technology incubator--staff at the Educational Technology Center, and The Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education, Inc. to input and present diverse voices of working women into a new media program called "Interclipper." To the group's knowledge, this was the first attempt to apply this new software technology in a university classroom setting for a course on labor history. Rendering oral histories as primary sources of service in the classroom, the new media format provided students with an alternative lens on working women's experiences--perspectives not normally gained in traditional text-based history courses. In the following narrative dialogue, Meyerowitz and Zinni trace the process and progress of their experiences with these technological applications for oral history use over 7 years time. Strengthening collaborative and decentralized aspects of classroom activities by allowing for more personal choices, involvement with the material(s) and active learning, the authors submit a multi-media, multi-perspectival approach to oral history intensified emergent and dialogical qualities of classroom interactions for students, instructors, and interviewees alike. (Contains 3 figures.)
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    • Number of References:
      15
    • Publication Date:
      2009
    • Accession Number:
      EJ835195