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Chapter 3: Empathetic Engagement

Objective: Advance the overall account; provide preliminary overview of research data and methods; offer narrative answer to Research Question 3 (“The Researcher”); explore how a significant research turning point and its lingering emotional impact illustrates a theory of meaning that Digital Stories significantly leverage.

Preliminary Draft Completed: December 18, 2021

Rough Cut Assembled: March 14, 2022

Table of Contents:

00:00 | Cold Open: (Lack of) Progress Report | p. 52

07:58 | Act 1: The Obligatory Segment about Data and Research Methods | p. 55

19:15 | Break 1: Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Katherine Newhouse, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Carey Jewitt | p. 59

30:42 | Act 2: Opting In, Blurring Out | p. 63

44:13 | Break 2: John Jackson Jr. | p. 68

52:43 | Coda: Revealing Ritual | p. 71