Hi Evan,
how do you differ between stories and history?

Christian

Am 25.05.2015 um 16:41 schrieb Evan Smeenge:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Evan Smeenge and I am writing my dissertation on community 
> social media engagement.
>
> I am trying to determine who has the authority to tell history. Oral 
> history is taking stories, spoken through mouth, by a bi-standard or 
> witness, in order to learn more about the life of a people or city. 
> This helps a museum address the topic that they are focusing on. I am 
> doing this on a bigger scale. I have hundreds of photos, and am trying 
> to get the community engaged with the photos. The goal is to acquire 
> stories about anything in order to have a ornate web of life in a 
> certain part of the world (I am doing this in London). The photos will 
> hopefully induce recollections of previous experiences, either close 
> to what the photograph displays, or completely separate from the image 
> local.
>
> I want to write a small part on authority. Do the groups that are on 
> Facebook, that are filled with people just talking about memories, 
> have authority in a museum or academic context?
>
> Find my project on Facebook and Flickr:
> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1100855586597172.1073741847.326077084075030&type=3
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/kingstonheritageproject/
>
> And my blog on the project: I am looking for critiques on the process 
> of this project, would love the help of anyone willing to give it - 
> www.kingstonknows.weebly.com <http://kingstonknows.weebly.com/>
>
> Thank you very much for your time and help
>
>
> Evan Smeenge
> MA Museum and Gallery Studies
> Kingston University
> +44 074 7747 0848
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/evansmeenge
>
>
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