September 27, 2024No Comments

Your identity is in an ‘unsupported format’: the loss of digital, cultural archives

Digital music’s renaissance — iPod, illegal downloading, and digital recording software like ProTools — coincided with and created the popularity of Myspace, establishing a massive community of music-lovers, music-makers, and music-stealers. Bands and individuals uploaded millions of MP3s — some of their own music, some they’d downloaded on LimeWire. The sound of youth in 2006 was a tinny din of 128kb/s, but it was beautiful.

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September 27, 2024No Comments

Getting comfortable with ambiguity: how to be a postmodern investigative realist

If truth during an interview must be pursued, as Morris and Macdonald argue, then, I would say it’s the skill of emotional intelligence that allows for that pursuit. The art of interviewing uses emotional intelligence to infer what is being left out and to attempt to probe deeper and attempt to find a deeper meaning. This probably isn’t a controversial statement for documentary filmmakers to accept, but is difficult for qualitative researchers to concede.

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