Professor Barnhurst begins his
lecture by asking the students to participate in a story-telling activity that
lasts one minute long about a recent story in their life that the individual
cares about. The students were looking for patterns that their stories shared.
Barnhurt explains that communication researchers have spent years analyzing this specific kind of communication. He also goes through the elements of storytelling. Barnhurst belives that there is an announcement before the story occurs. The next is complicating action, in which the story is founded by a problem. The following element is the response. There is in fact a specific structure that story-telling follows. A specific structure reminded me of the lesson in which we learned how to analyze a research paper, in which we follow a specific structure and decode the information. (Abstract, literature review, discussion, etc)
I think Barnhurt would agree to framing, in which the way we tell a story will shape the perceptions of our audience. Whatever information we choose to include will set a specific tone for our story. Framing may be intentional or non intentional when we tell stories. We might "forget" to include a part in the story, for example, if I told my boss I was late because I missed the bus. Well, I also "forgot" to include that I hit the snooze button a couple times too many. Barnhurt continued to elaborate on the structure of story-telling when the video was cut to an end.
Barnhurt explains that communication researchers have spent years analyzing this specific kind of communication. He also goes through the elements of storytelling. Barnhurst belives that there is an announcement before the story occurs. The next is complicating action, in which the story is founded by a problem. The following element is the response. There is in fact a specific structure that story-telling follows. A specific structure reminded me of the lesson in which we learned how to analyze a research paper, in which we follow a specific structure and decode the information. (Abstract, literature review, discussion, etc)
I think Barnhurt would agree to framing, in which the way we tell a story will shape the perceptions of our audience. Whatever information we choose to include will set a specific tone for our story. Framing may be intentional or non intentional when we tell stories. We might "forget" to include a part in the story, for example, if I told my boss I was late because I missed the bus. Well, I also "forgot" to include that I hit the snooze button a couple times too many. Barnhurt continued to elaborate on the structure of story-telling when the video was cut to an end.
Juline, your summary of Professor Barnhurst’s lecture provides enough context to give me an idea of what the lecture is about. You go on to effectively use the structure of a journal article, and the communication term of framing to synthesize what you learned in-class, and from the Barnhurst lecture.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Juline said. When we tell a story we do tell it from our point of view, which could be good or bad. We also want to make us look better if we are telling a story about our self, or if we are telling a story about someone we don't like we want them to seem like the villian.
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