Storyhood

Op 05-09-2014 heb ik bij de opening van het Festival Museum Perron Oost een lezing voorgedragen getiteld: Een duik in de stroom tussen kleine en grote verhalen . Het denkproces en het zelfonderzoek wat daarin is beschreven startte door mijn deelname aan het Symposium Online Herinneringen Vangen op 11 oktober 2013. Een van de onderwerpen die Paul Knevel aansneed (zie[…]

Abstract Geheugen van Oost (Memory of East) is a website designed for the exhibition Oost Amsterdamse buurt (East Amsterdam Neighboorhood) in the Amsterdam Historical Museum, held from October 10, 2003 till February 29, 2004. It is a project initiated by the Amsterdam Historical Museum, Buurt Online, Xina Text & Support and volunteers. However, due to its popularity among[…]

Empowerment from a Narrative Perspective: Learning from Local Memory Websites The exploration of the narrative nature of local memory websites in relation to empowerment theory produces new insights in the nested levels of analysis of both. Empowerment’s value orientation calls for a focus on strengths instead of weaknesses and, as such, requires specific language that[…]

Online local memories lubricating the emergence of community empowerment The analysis of the cultural dynamics in the online communication on two local memory websites offers insights into the social benefits they can offer. Active local memory websites are claimed to be empowering on individual, group and community levels, because they offer settings where locals participate[…]

Last week, I attended the Prato conference of the Community Informatics Research Network 2013. Being in the confluence of Community Archives and Community Informatics, made me feel a little like coming home, which I’ll try to explain below. One important reason is that the presentations were very inspiring and covering a broad range of issues from[…]

Participative learning in a PhD-project – do I practice what I preach? It is by far nontrivial to make the necessary steps to fully adopt participative research strategies. Window dressing or false believes should be uncovered in order to learn to truly practice what is preached. This paper presentation is inspired by a remark of[…]

Mapping an emerging field: local memory websites The last decade has shown a growth in the number and extent of local memory websites. These platforms for online collecting of local memories by neighborhood residents are readily claimed in most literature to be a driving force of empowerment processes at individual, group and community level. Yet,[…]

`Als iedereen aan zichzelf denk wordt niemand vergeten` (Henk en Ingrid) Het Geheugen van Oost: een 10 jaar oude website met 2500 persoonlijke verhalen die zich afspelen in de buurten van Amsterdam Oost, met meer dan 17.000 reacties.  Vele betrokken buurtbewoners – daar ben ik er 1 van – vragen zich af of het bestaan[…]

I presented a paper with the above title during the Sociable Smart City, a workshop with nine papers and wise people, at the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments 2013 in Athens. Here is the abstract of my paper: In this article, we explain how we envision the further interconnection of existing  initiatives of online[…]

A new publication in Journal of Social Intervention from me (Mike de Kreek) and Liesbet van Zoonen. You can read the abstract below and the full article here. Recent studies apply highly variable terminology in explaining the benefits of interventions using local memory websites. Our literature review systematizes this terminology into three, clearer levels of[…]

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Great summary, Mike! I also like your observation that "local memory websites could be considered to be at the nexus…

Drugshonden zijn liev :) Have fun met Gilles daar!

Mike My contribution to the 'Storyhood' narrative and the seminar this week on Quantum Storytelling: http://bit.ly/iIUHYQ Thanks…

ja, zeker je tekst aantekeningen niet openbaar toegankelijk maken, er wordt toch behoorlijk gejat in deze wereld, echt waar.

Thank you! Don't think I wrote that one down earlier ;) the more relevant stuff on the blog, the better!

Probably already tipped you before: Boje, D. 2001: Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research, Sage Publications, Page 62 onwards…

Als besproken vanochtend: Weick (1995, p.182) describes Walk the Talk for managers: Walking is the means to find things…

Hulst van, M. (2008), Town Hall Tales, Culture as Storytelling in Local Government, Eburon Delft NL