It's the second season of the More and More Every Day Podcast. Join us every day for short (10 minute) episodes to talk all things oral history and challenge yourself with a daily oral history prompt.
Today's prompt: Today’s challenge, therefore, is two-fold. Listen to or watch an interview you’ve previously recorded and evaluate your use of silences. Next, take a look at Sander’s suggestions linked in the show notes, select one, and give it a try.
Resources
- Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (2009).
- Refer back to our previous episode, 2.10. Two Seconds of Silence
- Oral History Review, https://oralhistoryreview.org/tag/silence/
- Emma Kluge, “The Art of Silence: what I've learnt from doing oral histories” 2018. https://www.emmakluge.com/blog/2018/2/21/the-art-of-silence-what-ive-learnt-from-doing-oral-histories
- Namkje Koudenburg, Tom Postmes, Ernestine H. Gordijn, “Disrupting the flow: How brief silences in group conversations affect social needs,” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, (2011). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2010.12.006.
- (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002210311000274X)
- Viktor Sanders, “How to Be Comfortable With Silence in a Conversation.” Social Pro (2021). https://socialpronow.com/blog/dont-be-afraid-of-the-silence/#:~:text=Know%20that%20silence%20has%20a%20purpose%20in%20all%20conversations&text=When%20you%20talk%20about%20important,feel%20comfortable%20with%20each%20other.
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