SGER: Narrative Networks: The World Trade Center Tragedy

SES-0140024Peter S. 比尔曼和玛丽克拉克哥伦比亚大学该项目将收集第一波叙事口述历史的六个样本的纽约居民与世界贸易中心有不同程度的接触。 这些口述历史被计划作为三波采访的第一波，这三波采访将跟踪个人对这些事件的叙述如何随着时间的推移被公众叙述所塑造，并逐渐符合标准的叙述。 该项目还将分析六个纽约样本中这些叙述性叙述的差异，例如，比较失去家庭成员的人的故事，幸存的救援人员的故事，以及不太直接参与世贸中心事件的普通民众的故事。 口述历史的使用将提供广泛的文本来源，不仅揭示人们知道什么，而且揭示人们（和社会）如何构建叙事并为9月11日等关键事件创造意义。 网络和序列分析方法将被用来探索文本元素如何组合成一个连贯的叙事结构，以及该结构如何随着时间的推移而变化，并在群体之间存在差异。

SES-0140024Peter S. Bearman and Mary Clark Columbia University The project will collect the first wave of narrative oral histories from six samples of New York residents with varying degrees of contact with the World Trade Center. These oral histories are planned as the first wave of what would be three waves of interviews that would track how individuals' narrative accounts of those events are shaped over time by public narratives and come to conform to a standard narrative account. The project will also analyze differences in these narrative accounts across the six New York samples, comparing for instance, the stories from people who lost family members, stories from surviving rescue workers, and stories from the general population less directly involved in the World Trade Center events. The use of oral histories will provide broad textual sources that reveal not only what people know but how people (and society) construct narratives and create meanings for critical events such as September 11. Network and sequence analysis methods will be used to explore the structure of how the textual elements are put together into a coherent narrative, and how that structure changes over time and differs among groups.