In order to learn more about current media use in real life, you will be asked to investigate a child’s media use and practices. You can choose the age group you are interested in and the kind of media use. For example, if you are interested in toddlers, you can watch how they play with an app and ask questions, or let them watch a TV show and interview them afterwards as to what they understood. Another example is you can interview adolescents about social media or video games. These are just examples and you are free to come up with something that interests you - age,etc. The goal of the interview is to listen with an open mind, observe and try to understand from a developmental perspective how the person you are interviewing interacts with media. I greatly prefer a child under the age of 18, but if you have no access to a child that young, then you may interview a child up to the age of 20. With COVID, we understand if may be harder to connect with a child; if you are at home with a younger sibling or relative, you are welcome to interview them. You can also do the interview over Zoom. Longer than 4 pages will not be accepted. A strong paper will link what you learn to developmental tasks - such as language learning, identity development, etc.
Resources for the assignment
●How to write an interview essay.
https://www.brighthubeducation.com/help-with-writi… Here are links to how to write an interview essay and how to conduct the interviews(MUST READ)
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/Intervie…
Organize your interview to answer the following questions:
○How do you and your family interact with media/technology?
○How do you and your friends interact with media/technology?
○What is your favorite/least favorite thing about media/technology?
○What do you use media for?
○How are you using media during the COVID-19 pandemic?
○What is one thing you want the people who create the media you like to watch/ play/ interact with to know?