The interview is a creative dialogic form rather than mere information extraction.

Evidence

To broaden the point, in relation to Stuart’s commitment to these more collaborative and less individualistic modes of intellectual work, it is worth noting that Scott also comments on the intellectual productivity—and indeed creativity—of the interview itself (as against the individually authored piece of work). From this perspective, the sensitive interviewer does not simply extract information from the interviewee, but instead sees their role as seeking to constitute a context for dialogue which enables the other to express themselves more effectively. Here we might think of the parallel with the work of Studs Terkel in the US and in the USSR with Svetlana Alexievich as practitioners who have both raised the interview to the level of an art form. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 28

Categorization

• XREF: The idea that dialogue-format itself produces new thinking parallels the ‘communicative’ literacy of Deep Listening and Oliveros’s attention-practices reviewed earlier.