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Main objective of the 'Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project' (MSDP) was to record appr. 800 interviews with or memoirs from survivors of the NS concentration camp Mauthausen and its sub-camps. After 16 months there were 838 audio interviews (91 of them also on recorded on video) were handed over to the memorial Mauthausen This article focuses on the video exhibition 'Memory of Mauthausen'. It describes how oral history methodology has been deployed to choose interviewees, to set up the interview situation and to structure the interviews. Finally, selected examples of survivors' narratives are presented and historically contextualised.

Based on the work of media historian, James Curran, Narrating Media History explores British media history as a series of competing narratives. This unique and timely collection brings together leading international media history scholars, not only to identify and contrast the various interrelationships between media histories, but also to encourage dialogue between different historical, political, and theoretical perspectives including: liberalism, feminism, populism, nationalism, libertarianism, radicalism and technological determinism.Essays by distinguished academics cover television, radi

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In recent years, as comics has become a more pronounced and arguably elevated medium in culture, there has also been a development both in the appreciation and participation of women and girls (characters, readers, creators) in comics, as Danziger-Russell notes in the opening pages of her book, and of nonfictional graphic narratives, as Chute recognises in her opening passages. There has been a burgeoning of academic interest in narrating women in comics, as literature and cultural history. Linguists, however, do not seem to have been as interested in the form, despite its apparent usefulness for considering questions about the relationship of the visual and the verbal, and the structure of storytelling.

Part One: Theorizing Locative Media through William Gibson's Fiction -- Introduction: From Cyberpunk to Locative Media -- 1. Narrative Manifestations of Locative Media: Spook Country -- 2. From Locative Media to Ubiquitous Computing: The Peripheral -- Afterthought -- Part Two: E-Book and Audio Book Locative Experimentations -- Introduction: Sedentary and Experiential Locative Reading Practices -- 3. Rethinking the E-Book: The Case of The Silent History -- 4. Rethinking the Audio Book: The Case of Teri Rueb -- Afterthought -- Part Three Narrating Niantic Locative Games through Hypertextual Practices -- Introduction: Re-Visiting Locative Gameplay: Towards a Post-Hyperfiction Paradigm -- 5. From Abstract Locative Gaming to Locative Hypernarrativity: The Case of the Niantic Games -- 6. Reconciling Locative Gameplay and Hypernarrative Practices in Niantic Games.

The use of psychedelic substances has been described as an 'unspeakable primary experience,' one that is personal and ultimately indescribable. The ineffable quality of such an experience, however, does not prohibit or invalidate attempts to explain it. The struggle to narrate one's experience is instead an important endeavor. But, how does narration work if the psychedelic experience is truly unspeakable? What kind of narratives are possible? What kinds of narrative work do psychedelics foreclose? This article addresses these questions by analyzing narratives generated about the use of psychedelics for drug treatment. Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic research at drug treatment centers in Baja California, Mexico, this article examines what narration looks like in the context of a psychedelic-based drug treatment modality. It pays particular attention to how people in treatment retell – or struggle to retell – their experiences with psychedelics to make sense of them and then articulate them for the researcher. I argue that psychedelic experiences pose a unique challenge for the anthropological study of these substances, particularly their therapeutic use. I show how these experiences resist narrativization in multiple ways, presenting both ethnographic and epistemological obstacles to the production of anthropological knowledge.

This chapter depicts a personal and a professional trajectory caused by the narrative turn in the social sciences. It went from an original enchantment to a more distanced and nuanced approach, but in the end the narrative take established itself firmly in social studies, in this chapter exemplified by organization studies. Of great importance were the charismatic guides to the narrative, such as Jerome Bruner and Alasdair MacIntyre, who translated narratology's main notions for the use of social scientists.