Exploring the possibilities of Thomson's fourth paradigm transformation—The case for a multimodal approach to digital oral history?

This article seeks to reorientate 'digital oral history' towards a new research paradigm, Multimodal Digital Oral History (MDOH), and in so doing it seeks to build upon Alistair Thomson's (Thomson, A. 2007, Four paradigm transformations in oral history. Oral History Review , 34(1): 49–70.) character...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 720 - 737
Autores principales: Smyth, Hannah K, Nyhan, Julianne, Flinn, Andrew
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2023
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