Interview paper of a chinese elder

In order to further our understanding of the history of technological and scientific change, you will conduct an interview with a senior citizen, at least 60 years of age, or a person who has recently immigrated to the United States. In this interview, you will focus on the impact of a technological or scientific change on the everyday life of your interviewee. These can changes large or small, negative, positive, or mixed. Consider the broad questions: what role did/does science/technology play in your interviewee’s life and what is their perspective on its impact? You can begin by asking about how scientific and technological change impacted their upbringing and personal life. For example, you can ask about the impact of the introduction of television on the home life of your interviewee. Or how their neighborhood life changed with the construction of the freeway. Or how birth control impacted the young adulthood of your interviewee. What was movie going like when they were young? How did radio or TV impact their relationship with the broader world? Did the threat of nuclear war impact their childhood? These changes can also be more recent; how have cell phones, changes in public transportation, or the internet impacted their everyday life? Workplaces are often impacted by technological change. Whether your interviewee worked in a field related to science or technology or not, you can ask how their field change over time and how did working in these fields impact their identity or sense of self? How did their day to day tasks change over time? Did their job get more complicated or less complicated, easier or more difficult? If your interviewee immigrated to the United States from elsewhere, what differences in terms of access to technology seemed most significant and why? How did they maintain contact with their home country? Did they engage with American media upon arrival? Did the nature and accessibility of healthcare change? Did your interviewee’s race, ethnicity, economic status, or gender impact their experiences with technological or scientific change?Look ahead on our syllabus to brainstorm for other ideas in terms of topics of conversation. As you delve into the experiences of your interviewee be sure to ask them to compare these past moments to their present day reality. Remember to be certain to ask how science and technology may have impacted their sense of self and how they communicated, understood, and related to their family, community, and the outside world.Plan for your interview to take about an hour. Take very careful notes and ask your interviewee if they consent to be recorded. Be sure your interviewee is someone with whom you are comfortable. Your interviewee can be a family member, friend, co-worker, former teacher; anyone you know personally is appropriate. You will need to develop an open-ended style of interview question that will guide the conversation, but allow space for your interviewee to share what they feel is significant. Your conversations will likely stray off topic at times, keep listening as your interviewee may share relevant information, and gently ask another question to keep the conversation on track
Your interview notes will be your primary resource for your essays. Your essay should draw out the major themes that emerged from the interview and must draw on appropriate course materials, such as readings and lectures, to flesh out these themes. Your essay should introduce your interviewee and include relevant information about their background. In your introduction, you must present a thesis based on the information culled from the interview and our work in class. For example: For Mrs. X the building of the freeway impacted her sense of community both in terms of space and socialization. This thesis statement tells us what particular technological change the essay will focus on and the themes that emerged in the interview.