[Ict4d] Fwd: How tech platform choice changes narrative recall

[Brian DeRenzi]

Dear All,

I wanted to pass along the following article as I thought it'd be of
interest to many. I just had a quick skim through, but my understanding was
that during an experiment in northern Uganda they found that people had
different *fact* recall about a video they watched depending on the
language (Acholi vs English) and the modality (oral vs written via SMS vs
written on a smartphone) used to answers the questions.

I thought this would have potential implications for the digital
preservation and other general communication work going on here, though by
no means is there evidence that these results would generalize to new
contexts.

Feel free to email Gwyneth directly or I'm happy to broker an intro if
you're keen. She's looking for people to collaborate with and continue her
work.

Cheers,
Brian

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From: Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at nafundi.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:20 AM
Subject: How tech platform choice changes narrative recall
To: bderenzi at cs.uct.ac.za


Dr. DeRenzi,

I was talking to my friend Gwyneth Sutherlin who has been doing
research on ICT and conflict and she's had some findings that I
thought might be interesting to you.

It turns out when surveying folks, narrative recall of an event using
different modalities (orally in a native language, written in a mobile
app, orally in English) didn't match at a conceptual level (3/4 were
distorted between the initial oral recall and the mobile app recall).
This matters because subtle distortions really count when documenting
issues relating to conflict.

Gwyneth would like something practical to come from her findings and
she's looking for people who are interested in developing the idea
further (e.g., further research, maybe software) and I thought you
might be potentially interested.

I've attached a paper that gets into the details. If you or someone
you know is interested in finding out more, I'd love to make a
connection. If not, no worries!

Yaw
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