A note to self as much as a post for other people:
- Through Design Fiction (e.g. Zero Hours)
- Through Social Fiction (e.g. Low Fat Love)
- Through Visual Journalism (e.g. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt)
- Through Visual Biography (e.g. Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City)
- Through Graphic Novels (I lack examples of this – I’m also aware the distinction between ‘graphic novels’ and ‘visual biography’ and ‘visual journalism’ may be so fine grained as to be pretty meaningless)
- Through Photography ( e.g. Art Sexual)
- Through Philosophical Biography (e.g. Wittgenstein, The Courtier’s Heretic)
- Through Creative Non-Fiction (e.g. Zeitoun, Venkatesh’s work)
- Through Film (e.g. Rufus Stone)
- Through Theater (e.g. the Fabulous Ruins of Detroit) [thanks Helen!]
- Through Video Games (e.g. Celiac Sam)
- Through Buzzfeed Style Lists (e.g. this)
- Through Walking Tours (e.g. the superb tour of Manhattan given by an urban sociologist at the 2015 Eastern Sociological Society conference)
- Through Podcasted Dialogues (e.g. the Promise of Sociology in 2015)
- Through Filmed Dialogues (e.g. British Sociology since 1945 or this dialogue between Carol Smart and Jeffrey Weeks)
- Through Stand Alone Prezis & Slideshare (e.g. I’ve never given this as a talk in person or intended to)
I’ll expand this properly at a later date when I have more time. Any further examples much appreciated though!
11 responses to “16 interesting ways to communicate knowledge”
Thanks for this post. You helped me to understand the changes in the Future of the Ph D in the Humanities and genres of scholarly knowledge production( http://www.humlab.umu.se/en/events/archive/genres-of-scholarly-knowledge-production/) Harvard Press is publishing a dissertation in comics form this month. Too bad these forms aren’t encouraged and taught more in the university.
Theatre: The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit, by Mercilee Jenkins, is a good example. She wrote this up in her 2010 paper of the same name in ‘Qualitative Inquiry’.
How about conversation? Martyn
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Wow, wish I’d known about that event – would have tried very hard to make it!
excellent, thanks Helen!
kind of a given, surely!??
unless you mean ‘conversation’ in a particular sense
Sherio, I’m hoping they will be taught more in future. I’ve just written a book on creative research methods, out on 1 April and primarily aimed at postgraduate research students and early career researchers, which covers many of these techniques: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Research-Methods-Social-Sciences/dp/1447316274/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426351057&sr=1-1&keywords=creative+research+methods (Mark, I hope you don’t mind the shameless plug – but it is directly relevant!).
Totally happy to post an advert on sociologicalimagination.org – just send me a blurb 🙂
There might be another… the #goskp2014 still gets some tweets and https://medium.com/genres-of-scholarly-knowledge-production is the page for updates after the conference…maybe an organizer can let you know if another one is planned
thanks!