In conversation with Jo Gibson today, I learned about a recent episode of This American Life. Jo and I were talking about eyewitness testimony, memory and history. She had listened to Ira Glass‘s conversation with Mike Daisey and she talked about a story aired by This American Life. The transcript of the recent program starts [...]
Posts Tagged ‘memory’
Presenting and Retracting
Posted in Communication, Digital Media, tagged Eyewitness Testimony, History, Ira Glass, Jo Gibson, memory, Mike Daisey, Retraction, This American Life, UCNISS on 21 March, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Eyewitnesses, Memory and Oral History
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Ethnography, tagged Eyewitness, Hindsight, memory, Oral History, Radio National on 27 January, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Radio National’s Hindsight had an excellent program this week. Inga Clendinnen, Paul Thompson, Peter Read, Heather Goodall, Sean Field and Bonnie Smith took part in the program (podcast here) titled The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting. I thought the program explored very effectively the relationships between history and memory. I liked in particular the discussion [...]
Visual Literacy and Fair Play
Posted in Digital Media, Performance, Sport, tagged Ari Santas, Cricket, Fair Play, FIFA, Francisco Maruenda, Gazzat, Harsha Bhogle, Ian Chappell, ICC, John Debes, Kevin Katinas, Kirk Erikson, Learning, Lisa Eaker, Mailliw, Matthew Wilson, memory, MIT, neural activity, Officiating, striatal volume, Thierry Henry, Umpire Decision Review System, Visual Literacy on 26 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two recent events have stimulated animated discussion about the role video can and should play in officiating. Thierry Henry’s handball in a World Cup Football qualifying game led to a FIFA disciplinary commission hearing. The International Cricket Council will investigate the umpire decision review system after protests about decisions made in the fourth test match [...]