Final bonus episode of a dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Objective: Share a co-created research artifact that there wasn’t room in the main narrative to discuss in more depth.
Interviewee: Yesenia
Interviewers: Hannah & Sam
Editing & Production: Kyle
Additional Music: “Curiosity” by Lee Rosevere via bandcamp.com (CC BY 3.0)
Objective: Conclude the overall account; offer narrative answer to Research Question 2 (“The Storytellling”); provide additional explanation of concentric analytic methods in the respective projects; discuss relevant forms of closure and continuing collaboration.
Preliminary Draft Completed: March 11, 2022
Rough Cut Assembled: March 18, 2022
Table of Contents:
00:00 | Cold Open: Launching the ‘Project Thingie’ | p. 74
04:59 | Act 1: Pseudonyms, Scripts, and Other Negotiations | p. 76
19:57 | Break 1: Joe Lambert | p. 83
26:40 | Act 2: Saying Goodbye to Peg | p. 86
Third interstitial bonus episode of a dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Objective: Share a research account from the pilot project that served as a kind of "proof of concept" of what I eventually produced in the main study and narrative.
Objective: Advance the overall account; provide preliminary overview of research data and methods; offer narrative answer to Research Question 3 (“The Researcher”); explore how a significant research turning point and its lingering emotional impact illustrates a theory of meaning that Digital Stories significantly leverage.
Preliminary Draft Completed: December 18, 2021
Rough Cut Assembled: March 14, 2022
Table of Contents:
00:00 | Cold Open: (Lack of) Progress Report | p. 52
07:58 | Act 1: The Obligatory Segment about Data and Research Methods | p. 55
19:15 | Break 1: Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Katherine Newhouse, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Carey Jewitt | p. 59
30:42 | Act 2: Opting In, Blurring Out | p. 63
Second interstitial bonus of a dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Objective: Share a conversation with a religious education researcher working in a similar area about our ideas and shared interests.
Interviewee: James Nagle
Interviewer: Kyle Oliver
Production & Editing: Kyle Oliver & Erin Wiens St. John
Episode 2 of a dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Preliminary Draft Completed: July 8, 2021
Rough Cut Assembled: January 2, 2022
Table of Contents:
00:00 | Cold Open: Non-Retail Non-Therapy | p. 28
07:03 | Act 1: Community By Design | p. 31
19:39 | Break 1: Doreen Massey | p. 37
25:53 | Act 2: Gratitude on Behalf of Whomever | p. 39
First interstitial bonus episode in a dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Objective: Share an extended ethnographic immersion in the form of the entire recording of an important moment from the study's field work, briefly excerpted in the main narrative.
Storyteller: Hannah
Episode 1 of a dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Objective: Introduce the project and research site as a whole; the purpose and approach of this account; myself as researcher, storyteller, and faith leader; some relevant social framing and theory; and two of the story's other central characters, Hannah and Sam.
Preliminary draft completed: January 31, 2021
Rough cut assembled: December 18, 2021
Table of Contents:
00:00 | Cold Open: A Church that Doesn’t Look Like Church | p. 5
08:52 | Act 1: Why We’re Here | p. 8
23:39 | Break 1: Elizabeth Drescher and Robert Putnam | p. 14
37:16 | Act 2: Godly Play, the Remix | p. 19
45:52 | Break 2: Bruno Latour | p. 23
50:22 | Coda: Tapestry Is the Weaving | p. 25
Trailer for the dissertation podcast by the Rev. Kyle Matthew Oliver, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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