Crossing the Boundaries of Media: A Case of the Digital Interview Collection
Crossing the Boundaries of Media: A Case of the Digital Interview Collection
An oral history interview could go through multiple transformations. Created first as a (marginal) digital source about local past, it became later a part of the archive, and then, through various unarchiving practices, returned to urban space of Lviv in a format of a city walk, and finally acquired another digital form as a virtual storymap. This circulation will be illustrated with the example of “Creative Communities of Soviet and post-Soviet Lviv” collection of interviews. While discussing numerous transitions between formats and media, we would like to address the issues of overlapping between digital and physical spaces of the city and the role of memory and imagination in this process. Eventually, we are also interested in the journey these stories took from margins to mainstream (and vice versa).
Speakers
Natalia Otrishchenko
A sociologist, coordinator of "Urban Stories" in the Urban Media Archive.
Graduate of the University of Lviv’s History Department, and Inter-Institutional Individual Humanitarian Studies (MISH). Natalia studied in the USA at Berea College, and taught at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. She was involved in the "Region, Nation and Beyond" (2012-15, University of St. Gallen), "Memories of Vanished Populations" (2012-14, Lund University), and “Historical Cultures in Transition” (2017-onwards, Collegium Civitas) international projects, a guest researcher at the AGH University (2012). She is a member of Ukrainian Oral History Association.
She conducts a research “Urban Experts and Changing Cities: Reshaping Professional Field (1970s-2010s)”. She was a tutor and later coordinator of the Urban Summer Schools “Visions and Experiences” (2015-17), was involved in the organization of Urban Summer school “Open Form” (Lublin-Szumin-Warsaw, 2018). Her academic interests include methodology and methods of sociological research, oral history, projective methods, urban sociology, spatial and social transformations after the state socialism.