Open Access“Say Their Names”
Author(s) -
Melissa McLetchie
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
new sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2563-3694
pISSN - 2563-3686
DOI - 10.25071/2563-3694.56
Subject(s) - storytelling , form of the good , narrative , fidelity , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , observational study , reflection (computer programming) , sociology , psychology , media studies , history , social psychology , law , political science , literature , art , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , telecommunications , mathematics , statistics , programming language
Katherine Bischoping and Amber Gazso (2016) use the notion of a “good story” to evaluate how successfully the storyteller conveys their message to the reader. The goal of this observational reflection paper is to explore whether the same criteria of good storytelling (i.e., good reportability, good liveability, good coherence, and good fidelity) can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of narratives told by prisoner rights protestors. I draw on my firsthand experience of a protest outside the Central East Correctional Facility in Lindsay, Ontario to develop my evaluation and conclude that the stories I observed can be analyzed using this criterion.