Notecard Interview

I interviewed:
Sameena, female, 19
Matt, male, 18
Laura, female, 44
Jeff, male, 43

When I asked what media was, everyone had a similar answer. They siad it was a way to give and recieve information through different mediums. The only difference was the younger interviewees thought of internet and tv first and the older interviewees said newspaper and books before internet. This shows the shift in media. The younger generations leans toward electronics and ways to get information and entertainment more quickly and the older generation stays with more printed material.

The next question was about how the media impacted your life. Here if divided by age again the older interviewees said that the first thing media did was keep them informed. The younger generations saw media mostly just for entertainment value. In the next question I asked what their favorite form of media was and the younger people said video games and movies. The older people said tv because it was easily accessable and can get information fast.

Lastly, I asked if anything in the media should change. The older interviewees said nothing needed to change. Jeff said that there were a ton of choices for entertainment value and news. He also siad that if he didn't like something he could watch something else and not make a big deal about it. Laura said it was easy to get information so nothing needed to change. The younger interviewees were the opposite. They said that things should change. Sameena said that there are too many biased sources and that the majority of people don't know that they are biased. So to help this problem she said that there should be more unbiased media and to label the bias on the certain stations/shows. Matt said that the media needed to show more information about what was going on in the world, hard news, and less pop culture. The differences in these options are from different schooling. The younger generation has grown up in a world with more media and are taught about it. The older generations weren't exposed to the same amount of media and weren't taught about the modern media.