Sharp Project Cyprus 2:
The Politics of E-memory
Holger Briel
Summary 1:
This project will identify promising young people (high school/university
students) to interview older people in Cyprus about their lives in the 1960s
and 1970s. It will develop and make available training modules to provide
these interviewers with guidance and support in conducting these interviews
applicably to similar projects in the EU or worldwide. The interviewers will
also be given training in the editing and uploading of these interviews onto a
dedicated website. The interviewees will also work together with the
interviewers in selecting multimedia data (sound bites, video, pictures, etc.)
in order to introduce them to new media. This will allow them to access
lifelong learning tools previously unavailable to them. The uploaded data will
provide a multimedia resource to the local community, but also to other
interested parties worldwide, creating synergy effects with similar projects.
Summary 2
The interviewees will also work together with
the interviewers in selecting multimedia data
(sound bites, video, pictures, etc.) in order to
introduce them to new media. This will allow
them to access lifelong learning tools
previously unavailable to them. The uploaded
data will provide a multimedia resource to the
local community, but also to other interested
parties worldwide, creating synergy effects
with similar projects.
Targets:
Young people interested in community media
and historical development.
Older people with little or no new media
experience.
Objectives:
To create tools for media training.
To give interviewing and multimedia editing training to young
people.
To make younger people better understand the impact of recent
individual histories on their own lives.
To allow new media experiences for older citizens, making them
better understand that the ability to manage new media adds
advocacy to their lives and efficiently allows them to disseminate
their knowledge beyond fact to face interactions.
To disseminate project findings via the internet.
To encourage other projects to link up to this one, thereby adding
value to individual
Technological abilities acquired:
• Interviewing techniques.
• Understanding of psychological factors
involved in interviewing.
• Video and audio editing.
• Ability to upload multimedia data onto a
website.
Outcomes:
• Acquisition of new multimedia abilities
• Ability to better understand new media
• Community building
• Consciousness raising about contested issues
in recent Cypriot history
• Linking into a global network of oral history
projects