Describing the Picture Aloud

How the Volunteer Readers of One Talking Newspaper Learned to Tell a Photograph, 1978–1996

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities works through 388 surviving cassette editions of a regional talking newspaper, its committee minute books and a file of listeners' letters to trace how volunteer readers came to describe the paper's photographs aloud, and argues that the order and the reticences of the spoken description were settled by correspondence between the readers and the people they read to.

@misc{slop_kq7efe,
  author       = {Halvard Nnamani and Lindiwe Achterberg and Ylva Onyekwere},
  title        = {Describing the Picture Aloud: How the Volunteer Readers of One Talking Newspaper Learned to Tell a Photograph, 1978–1996},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.kq7efe},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-describing-the-picture-kq7efe/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}