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Media Across Generations: Interview Assignment
Assignment objectives:
By completing this assignment, the student will:

  1. understand how various media sources affect intrapersonal, interpersonal, and mass communication –
    in both the past and present.
  2. infer how various media sources may affect communication in the future – in similar and different
    ways than today and in the past.
  3. develop better interviewing skills and techniques
  4. reflect on and synthesize themes, differences and similarities in media and technology use across
    generations.
    Directions:
    For this assignment, you will interview two people. The first person, whom you will refer to as “Interviewee
    1,” should be someone one generation older than you (a parent or someone of your parents’ generation). The
    second person, whom you will refer to as “Interviewee 2,” should be and someone two generations older than
    you (a grandparent or someone of your grandparents’ generation).
    Your goal is to learn about what media and technology were like when they were growing up. You will ask
    each interviewee the following 8 questions, as well as two additional questions that are relevant to this topic,
    which you come up with on your own.
    Use these 10 questions as a guide, but allow the conversation to unfold naturally and allow your
    interviewees to expand on their answers as they see fit. Feel free to ask them follow up answers to
    gain more information.
    Interview Questions
  5. What type of media did you use the most often when you were growing up?
  6. How did you gain access to media content (movies, music, magazines, books)?
  7. How much choice did you have when accessing media content?
  8. What type of media/technology did you use most frequently to communicate with your friends and
    family?
  9. Tell me about one media product (e.g. a movie, book, or song) that you recall having a strong influence
    on you as you were growing up.
  10. How do you feel that the media you grew up with may have influenced your sense of your own culture
    and identity?
  11. How did the stereotypical representations in the media you consumed affect you and your
    understanding of the world?
  12. What kind of access did you have to find out about what was going on in other countries around the
    world?
  13. A relevant question of your own interest related to the topic of media/technology:
  14. A relevant question of your own interest related to the topic of media/technology:
    Assignment Submission
    In your submission, provide each interviewee’s answers to these questions (labeling them “Interviewee 1” and
    “Interviewee 2”), and then thoroughly answer the following questions as your own reflection on this
    interview experience:
  15. What was the most interesting, significant, or surprising thing you learned from your interview with
    Interviewee 1? From Interviewee 2?
  16. What are some similarities or differences between the media use of your generation and the media
    use of Interviewee 1’s generation? Of Interviewee 2’s generation?
  17. What are some similarities or differences between the role that media played in people’s
    understanding of their own identity and the world in the past, and today?
  18. In general, would you say that media and technology have had more of a positive influence or negative
    influence in each generation, as well as your own?
  19. What did you learn about how changes in media and technology have influenced the way we
    communicate over time?
  20. What did you learn about how the cultural influence of media has changed over time?
  21. Come up with one or two additional questions that you would ask your interviewees if you could meet
    them again, to follow up on what you learned.
  22. Please provide any other thoughts, lessons learned, or insights that you have had through this
    experience.
    Format: Please type your paper using 1” margins, size 12 font, and double-space it. Use appropriate headings, as needed.
    Due: Both the interview AND the reflection paper are due by 2/1 @ 9:00am
    Please submit your completed assignment electronically through Moodle.

(BROADCAST) War of the Worlds

On the 30th of October in 1938, Orson Welles produced, hosted, and acted in the most famous single radio broadcast of all time, an adaptation of H.G. Well’s science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds. Instead of just acting out the novel, he broadcasted it in a news format.

To listen to the broadcast, you can click the link above or you can cut & paste this address into your web browser: http://sounds.mercurytheatre.info/mercury/381030.mp3

Assignment - War of the Worlds.docx