Course Type | Course Code | No. Of Credits |
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Foundation Elective | SES201215 | 4 |
Semester and Year Offered: Semester III or IV
Course Coordinator and Team: SurajitSarkar(C)
Email of course coordinator: surajit.cck@aud.ac.in
Pre-requisites: None
Objectives:
- To provide an overview of digital communication in the contemporary world.
- To develop digital storytelling and narrative making skills, both self-generated and based on listening to others.
- To develop communication skills with the subject.
- To understand important aspects of interviewing and audio recording.
- To prepare students with skills for handling equipment to carry out digital AV recording, editing and dissemination, both on-line and off-line.
Course Outcomes:
By the end of this course the students will be able to:
- Mark out the steps in digital storytelling.
- Identify and use storytelling skills and develop a narrative on paper in visual frames.
- Identify sources of knowledge – codified and un-codified, life histories and sources of interdisciplinary knowledge.
- Understand the use of oral techniques and fieldwork to unravel the experiential aspects of recollection
Brief description of the Modules
Module 1: Storytelling and Communication – Born Digital, and pre-Digital (analog).
Module 2: Digital techniques, practices and audio-visual equipment.
Module 3: Usingmemory and experience – from Digital archives to Social Media - Histories of everyday lives, livelihoods and as sources of intangible knowledge. Aspects of Orality – from ethnography, literature and films.
Module 4: The Social in Storytelling.Developing Oral Narratives – methodologies and interpersonal processes.Co-authorship and building contributions. Ethics – privacy, consent and copyright.
Indicative Reading List:
- Dalrymple, William. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred and Modern India. Bloomsbury, 2009.
- Lanning, Greg; Television History Workshop, Project No 1: The Brixton Tapes, History Workshop, No. 12 Pg 183-88; 1981 (as pdf)
- McDougall, D. Transcultural Cinema, Princeton University Press, 1998
- Panos Institute ; Giving voice: Implementing oral testimony projects, Panos, London, 2003 (as pdf)
- Sontag, Susan .On photography. Penguin: Harmondsworth 1977.
- Pinney, C. and Peterson N. (eds). 2003. Photography’s other histories. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Banks, M. ,Visual Methods in Social Research. London: Sage. 2001
- Ghosh, Amitav, In an Antique Land: History in the guise of a traveller's tale. Vintage Books, 1994.
- Grimshaw, A. The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Ledwith, Margaret, and Jane Springett. Participatory Practice: Community Based Action for Transformatory Change. Bristol: Polity Press, 2010.
- Thompson, Paul: The Voice of the Past, 3rd edn, OUP , 2000
- Portelli, Alessandria. The Death of Luigi Trastulli and other stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History. State University of New York Press, 1991.
- Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: 20 Century Ethnography, Literature and Art, Harvard University Press, 1988.