SOSC 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Twitter
15 Apr 2016
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Lecture 13: oral history: the oral tradition. Method of education, mode of cultural artistic practice. Elders had the responsibility of safeguarding the historical memory of their people. Recent news transmitted orally, twitter-sphere, gossip, rumor -> play down as bias, unreliable sources of information: yet we rely on it. Gossip and rumor remain a very important part of oral tradition. Oral traditions partially supplanted by text-culture (industrialization) Oral traditions continue in education (lectures/discussion); workplaces (on- the-job training); spoken word (poetry, storytelling). Is knowledge transfer in digitalized form over-taking oral tradition. Power relations: implicit in relationship between interviewer and the interviewee: census, public health records, social workers, court room testimony. History from below turned the discipline of history by making it possible to take the lives of ordinary people rather than wealthy who had the money to document their life. How one recalls and replays significance to a phenomenon.
