ESOC 300 Digital Storytelling

3) How important do you think linguistic style is for storytellers to gain and hold an audience’s attention? Were you, or was your designated reader, concerned about enunciating words, pitch and intonation, verbal tics, or the speed of speaking when reading one of the “Where I’m From” poems aloud? Remember, Julie Beck, Senior Associate Editor of The Atlantic, notes that popular YouTube vloggers tend to extend vowels, extend consonants, and aspirate words in their YouTube performances to capture the attention of an audience.

4) What is your reaction to critiques of young women using vocal fry (a lower-register oscillation, a glottal creaking, or a guttural growl sound at the back of the throat) or uptalk (rising intonations on declarative sentences) in their speech? Are you concerned about how you present yourself verbally? Why or why not? What does your voice say about who you are and where you’re from? Have you ever been mocked or criticized for your speech patterns or voice? Please refer to Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview for examples of verbal creak and uptalk as you respond to this question and reflect on the voice track as the spine of any digital storytelling project.

5) What are three interview techniques that you found helpful in the readings about interviews? Why? How will these suggestions influence the interview required for your project? (Cite sources.)

6) Prepare the artist’s statement by describing and reflecting on the importance of narratives and the digital storytelling theories that influenced you in this unit. (See question #3 from your artist’s statement.) Specifically, answer in a paragraph:

What three course sources helped you with your a) understanding and design of digital storytelling and podcast, and b) your own writing, podcasting and thinking? Cite sources.

 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201…

https://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/425608745/from-upsp…

https://storycorps.org/stories/studs-terkel/