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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Storytellers"”.
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Storytellers, Dreamers, Rebels:
Peter Carey has been discussed in academia since the 1980s. And since then these discussions revolve around postmodernism, postcolonial studies or, indeed, both at once. So, either Peter Carey has been writing the same old novel for nearly thirty years by now, or there are whole worlds in his …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
The thesis examines the effects of online marketing practices on the identity construction of individual marketers, referred to as the Digital Organisational Storyteller (DOS), across five business-to-business (B2B) organisations. I focus on illuminating their marketing processes and …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
The thesis examines how I might deploy the postmodern approaches of the metaphysical detective novel to represent a divided society’s quest to understand itself in the context of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Wary of the pitfalls of applying the certainties of traditional detective fiction to …
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The Rape-Revenge Genre in the Digital Age of Heightened Visibility: The Rise of Female Storytellers and Fourth-Wave Feminism
… with changing feminist sentiments and how female storytellers are filtering in more progressive female subjectivity into the genre which has, in part, led to the genre re- entering mainstream cinema. Rape-revenge films are incredibly important as they force audiences to view and grapple with a …
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Creating a Cross-Disciplinary Understanding of Legacy Stories – What Does It Mean to Share a Legacy and What Do Storytellers Need?
… resulting in 35 fundamental needs for storytellers. Next, we considered how experts in aging and intergenerational storytelling have developed programs that foster meaningful conversation. These interviews yielded 8 key design principles to empower loved ones and broader communities to …
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The contemporary storyteller in context: a study of storytelling in modern society
Professional storytellers and their work over the past three decades have been acknowledged as a field worthy of study by many scholars. While drawing from traditional sources and abstract concepts concerning what is traditional storytelling, contemporary storytelling practitioners' methods often …
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Creating Destiny: Crafting a Historical Tale Based upon the Life of Emmeline B. Wells.
… examines the process and procedures employed by storytellers to craft an oral historical narrative. Contemporary storytellers are working toward a transferable methodology and this work is an effort toward that end. Using the various procedures described by nearly 20 storytellers, a single …
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A Bayesian theory of mind approach to nonverbal communication for human-robot interactions : a computational formulation of intentional inference and belief manipulation
… form that is mutually regulated between storytellers and listeners where a key dynamic is the back-and- forth process of speaker cues and listener responses. Listeners convey attentiveness through nonverbal back-channels, while storytellers use nonverbal cues to elicit this feedback. We …
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Our Social Networks: Exploring the benefits of storytelling in building agency, identity and wellbeing with people with learning disabilities
… the perspectives and experiences of the storytellers (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000). A key theme which arose from the literature and information search and from the oral histories of people with learning disabilities explored during this research was that having positive experiences and …
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Children’s recognition of emotional tone-of-voice
… task tested recognition of speaker affect from storytellers and non-storytellers. Accuracy significantly increased after training (not replicated with non-trained controls) irrespective of the speaker (i.e., storytellers/non-storytellers).Findings suggest listening to vocalised emotions …
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PanoFrame : a crowdsourcing platform for making and editing multi-perspective narratives with panoramic video
… a panoramic video can make it challenging for storytellers to share their perspectives given that the whole landscape is presented to the audience without any frames. The aim of this research is to explore the potential of making multi-perspective panoramic video narratives. As low-cost …
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CARE THAT LISTENS: SHAPING INTENSIVE CARE UNIT BEREAVEMENT PROTOCOLS THROUGH THE POWER OF STORY
… where the research knowledge was returned to the storytellers, and demonstrates the larger study’s priority to champion patients as research partners. Following the online KMb activity, the researcher facilitated a sharing circle with the co-researchers to explore three research questions that …
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Overcoming and offering: Narratives of resilience from diverse older adults
… life events. The diverse identities of the storytellers include ages ranging from 65 to 96 years old, and racial/ethnic backgrounds including Black, Asian, White, American Indian, and Hispanic individuals. Six storytellers self-identified as cisgender women, one as a transgender woman, and …
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unruly play in picture books
… in a way that honors children’s agency as storytellers.</strong></p>
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"""Tell me a story about long time"": A Study of the folkstory performance tradition in the United States Virgin Islands"
… of these traditional Virgin Islands storytellers who participated in the folkstory performance tradition.
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A narrative exploration of the lived experience of being born, raised in, and leaving a cultic group: the case of the Exclusive Brethren
… was represented in collaboration with the storytellers using their words as far as possible. At the heart of every story lay their experience in the Brethren; the doctrines and practices forming the bedrock. The stories told how storytellers came to leave and how, in leaving, they …
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Indigenous Narrative Sovereignty: Pathways Through Turtle Island Film Festivals and Diverse Media Ecosystems
… how narrative sovereignty impacts diverse storytellers, this work illuminates how we can better fund creatives of color, teach their innovative media, and be led by Indigenous values, methodologies and theories towards co-liberation joy and a place where media reflects the rich diversity of …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
… as poets assume the dual role of “witnesses and storytellers” (Palermo 2). The ideas of persona poems, spatial economy, and confessional poetry are all considered in the opening section which introduces the themes – death, physical violence, pornography, and hope. David Mura, Ai, and Adrienne …
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Mar Gur Dream Sí Iad Atá Ag Mairiúint Fén Bhfarraige: ML 4080 the Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context
… Mermaid Legend, demographic information about storytellers and collectors, its typical forms, and the motifs or subtypes which are subject to geographic variation. I argue that the legend originated in Ireland or Gaelic Scotland and spread from Gaelic Scotland to Shetland and Orkney, and from …
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Oral Story: A pedagogical tool encouraging children's mathematical thinking.
… and the role of children as mathematical storytellers? How can such narratives be documented? It starts by identifying the Vygotskian principles of instruction that are of importance to the practice of teaching young children. Data are generated by means of interviews, discussions, …
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