Name one person from the community that you are interested in interviewing and underscore why you have chosen this person.
Then, list at least ten interview questions that will potentially ask the person.
During class, we will review the interview questions and talk about how to make the questions more effective.
I would like to interview Bianca Rodriguez. I have chosen this person because she owns a blog and Instagram fan account. She seems to be very knowledgeable about the band and fandom.
ReplyDelete1) When did you first discover One Direction?
2) What first got you interested?
3) What made you create a fan account?
4) Have you made any friends through your accounts?
5) Do you see yourself still being a fan in five years and owning an account still?
6) Favorite member and why?
7) Favorite song/album and why?
8) Have you attended a concert? Did you enjoy it?
9) Are there any common misconceptions about being a Directioner that you’d like to clear up?
10) Most disturbing thing/event that’s occurred within the fandom?
For my first interview, I plan on interviewing Grant Keller. I want to interview him because he is a “Butler” at the Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. He operates the attraction and trains other Cast Members. He is also a facilitator for Cast Member orientation.
ReplyDelete1) When did you start working at Walt Disney World?
2) What are the responsibilities of your job?
3) What do you love most about your job?
4) What is the most difficult part of your job?
5) What was the most difficult guest interaction you have had to deal with?
6) How do your managers motivate you to provide outstanding guest service?
7) How do leaders communicate with Cast Members on stage if there is something that needs to be addressed immediately?
8) How do you communicate with guests in order to provide them with the highest level of service?
9) Does being upbeat and friendly towards guests all the time make you enjoy work more, or does it exhaust you?
10) How do Cast Members act backstage? Are there rules for behavior like there are on stage?
11) What is some shorthand terminology you use that is unique to your job?
I would like to interview Bella Hirsh. Bella has been a smilers fan since the very beginning and currently attends the University of Colorado Boulder. She is very knowledgeable when it comes to the smilers community and listens to Miley Cyrus on the daily.
ReplyDelete1.What sparked your interest with Miley Cyrus?
2.Why do you consider yourself a Smiler?
3. What action did you take to make you feel like a true Smilers fan?
4. What is your favorite song/ album? Why?
5. Why do you feel connected to Miley Cyrus?
6. Have you ever been to Miley Cyrus's concert and which one?
7.What have you seen from the Smilers fan base that is unusual?
8.Who do you think is Miley's biggest supporter?
9. Later on life, do you think you still will consider yourself a fan?
10. How do you keep up with being a Smiler?
Kris Choudhury is a UCF student who frequently engages in the Imgur community. He browses through Imgur on his off time and has a fairly good perception of the community. He considers himself a "dank memer" and a proud "Imgurian."
ReplyDelete1. What sparked your interest to join the Imgur community rather than Reddit and other such sites?
2. How deeply involved are you in the Imgur community?
3. What is your stance on the dank memes that the younger members are posting within the community?
4. Have you ever posted any dank memes to Imgur?
5. What is your favorite photo photo or gif on Imgur?
6. Do you get triggered at certain posts?
7. Would you consider certain posts and topics in Imgur toxic, and that they should be removed?
8. Hows deep do your roots go concerning Imgur?
9. What do you love most about the community?
10. If a community board was introduced, such as a text based forum, would it improve the community?
I am interested in interviewing Chelsea Klaiman. I have decided to interview her first mainly because she has been watching the show since the first episode and she has been a follower and part of the PLL Army since the beginning. She also seems to be very well informed about the communication and language within the fanbase.
ReplyDelete1. How would you describe yourself within the PLL Army?
2. Why do you consider yourself a part of the PLL Army?
3. What led you to become connected to the show and characters?
4. Do the characters in real life and in the show effect you differently and do you appreciate them at different levels? Explain.
5. Does being in the PLL Army ever get draining or do you support the show as a whole 24/7?
6. When people criticize PLL, how do you feel? What do you do?
7. Would you say you love the show? To what extent do you love the show?
8. Do you feel that the bond between the Army depends on the curiosity of A and the secrets? Explain.
9. How would you react if you would see a girl wearing a PLL shirt? Would you feel an instant bond/connection?
10. Would you consider it difficult to remain in the PLL Army after the show ends? How is your community going to remain intact?
I would like to interview Nikki Morse. She shows song passion in this years election as a very strong minded feminist. She has been following this election since the first day and is very open when it comes to tweeting about politics.
ReplyDelete1. What topic are you most passionate about during this election and why?
2. What topic are you most concerned about and why?
3. Why are you so passionate about this election?
4. What would you say to millennial voters who are voting the opposite of you?
5. Why do you think its so important for millennial to vote?
6. How has this election impacted you?
7. How do you deal with people replying to your tweets about this election?
8. How do you feel about people replying to your tweets?
9. What advice would you give to those tweeting about politics?
10. How do you this the outcome of this election will affect the future?
I would prefer to interview a veteran of the game, Alex Foote. He has spent over five hundred hours playing League of Legends and currently is enrolled at the University of Florida. He has been playing League of Legends since its earliest days and may provide some insight to how it has been changed into what I know the community to be today.
ReplyDelete1. What role do you assume playing League of Legends?
2. What degree of communication inside the game do you like?
3. Do you behave differently inside the game as compared to out of the game?
4. How deeply rooted are you within the community?
5. How did you join the community? Why?
6. How do you feel about casual and serious/ranked play?
7. Most difficult aspect of League of Legends?
8. What makes League of Legends unique/stand out among the rest of games to you?
9. Do you think perceptions of the community or video game genre have shaped it in some way? What preconceptions have you seen within the LoL community?
10. If you could talk to yourself before you joined the community, have you changed?
I have decided to interview my coworker Clint Vaughn. He has been playing Dungeons and Dragons for 14 years, and answers a multitude of questions from community members on the forums/subreddit in his spare time. He is by far the most experienced D&D member I know, if not the most active.
ReplyDelete1. How were you introduced to the Dungeons and Dragons community?
2. How do you respond to the stereotypes associated with the community?
3. What does the game have to offer that other games do not?
4. What does the D&D community feel about new players?
5. What is the most used genre of communication within the community?
6. What impact does the D&D community make on the world?
7. How much communication is involved between members?
8. What kind of jargon has been developed within the community?
9. What is the relationship between community members?
10. How does the D&D community compare to other gaming communities?
For my ethnography on the Planner’s Lounge, I would like to interview the founder, Debbie Orwat.
ReplyDelete1. What was the inspiration behind creating the Planner’s Lounge?
2. What are you hoping people will take away from/get out of your website?
3. Describe the typical VIP Lounge member.
4. Why do you charge a fee for your forum?
5. Is there a team of people keeping Planner’s Lounge up and running, or is it all you?
6. Who writes the content/blog posts/articles?
7. What are your roles/responsibilities?
8. What is your favorite part of the Planner’s Lounge?
9. Who are some of your wedding and event planning role models?
10. Why are you giving away all of your secrets?
For my Ethnography on Beyonces Beyhive fanbase, I have chosen to Interview a co-founder/fan Jess Kemper.
ReplyDelete1. What is it about Beyonce that attracts you to her?
2. How did the name Beyhive come about?
3. What is your day job?
4. How do you balance life and running a fanbase?
5. How often do you see beyonce? Do you guys keep contact?
6. Whats the craziest thing that has happened in the fanbase forum?
7. Are you connected with any other fan base other than the Beyhive?
8. Do you get paid? or is this just for the benefit of fans only?
9. If you could change anybody how would you? and why?
10. What makes the Beyonce's Beyhive so special?
I would love to interview a woman named Koine Iwasaki. She is a successful dancer of my generation that I have been watching ever since I was little. I have competed against her many times and now I see her on social media traveling the world doing what she does best, dancing.
ReplyDelete1) Who's decision was it to get you started in dance?
2) Was there any bumps in the road that you had to overcome?
3) What feelings did you experience when you were asked to participate in your first paid dance gig?
4) Are you currently in any dance groups?
5) When traveling with celebrities, how are you being treated?
6) Do you feel like you have been treated with disrespect?
7) How would you say the competition industry influenced your dancing?
8) Would you rather competition or just performance?
9) If you could change one thing about this experience what would it be?
10) Would you go through the competition years all over again if you could?
I would like to interview a good friend of mine, Kyle Kelly. He has been playing Call of Duty since the first black ops was released and has informed me on many things that are affiliated with Call of Duty.
ReplyDelete1. what made you want to start playing such a intense game?
2.Do you ever play because you are feeling stressed? (as an outlet)
3.How often do you play? (how many hours a week)
4.Have you ever been to a convention?
5.Would you consider yourself a skilled player?
6.What do you think makes a player apart of the community?
7.Do you ever regret spending money on Call of Duty games?
8.Do you like communicating with other players that you've never met?
9.When's the best time for you to play Call of duty?
10.Which Call of Duty is your favorite and why?
I would interview Mark Mathis IV because he is the owner of the graphic design google+ group. He is in charge of running the site and keeping it free of spammers. He is also great designer, website designer, and coder.
ReplyDelete1. Why did you create this group?
2. What inspired you to become a designer?
3. What is your favorite part of designing?
4. How often do you check or post in the group?
5. Did you expect it to have so many followers?
6. Do you work in the graphic design field?
7. If not do you wish you did?
8. Have you meet new people through the group?
9. Have you learned anything from the graphic design group?
10. What was your original goal for the group?
I am going to interview Juan Orellana because he plays smash often, he may not take part in the discussions but he has a good feel of the game, and the game is what I want to focus on for this interview.
ReplyDelete1. How did you first learn about the game?
2. When did you start playing, or when did you purchase the game?
3. How long have you been playing the game?
4. Do you have a character that you usually play as and why?
5. How do people choose their “main”?
6. How long did it take you to learn how to play?
7. How long did it take you to become good at the game?
8. What aspects of the game do you enjoy?
9. Does it become repetitive?
10. What makes you keep playing smash?
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ReplyDeleteI would interview my friend Baran Barut. He is a frequent Library goer and he love to go with me so most of our views of the club are shared. However, each person's perspective is different, thus allowing Baran to be a great person to interview.
ReplyDelete1. What is the primary purpose for going to The Knight Library and why?
2. What do you believe makes the Library different than its competition (The Knights Pub)?
3. Has The Library ever disappointed you? If so in what way?
4. How has The Knight Library changed your life in a positive way?
5. How has the Knight Library changed your life in a negative way?
6. Do you have any other outlets for stress that do not compare to the Library? If so what are they?
7. How do those outlets for stress compare to the Library?
8. What would your friends say about The Library?
9. Because you are a frequent Library goer, once you turn 21, will you still be going to the Library or will you spread your Club choices?
10. What does The Library was a person, who is "The Library"?
I would like to interview Regan Durkin. Regan has been an active member in the rave community for 4 years now. She has gone to many festivals and raves all around the united states, and plans to go on many more. She works for HTG Events which promotes these type of events, so she has an understanding of the industry.
ReplyDelete1. What encouraged you to go to your first rave/festival?
2. Did you listen to EDM before you went to your first event?
3. When you think of a festival, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?
4. What makes you want to go to more festivals? What is the best part of attending a festival?
5. Has your taste in music changed over the years of going to festivals?
6. Which festival was your favorite to attend, and why?
7. Do you think there is a gender imbalance in the EDM production industry?
8. Do you follow the rave clothing trend when attending these festivals? Why or why not?
9. Do you go to these events with a group, or would you ever attend one alone?
10. Describe all the feelings/emotions you go through while you are at a festival.
I would like to interview Lindsey Butters. Lindsey is my family friend back at home and is a very active member within the "directioners". She makes sure she goes to any concert that comes to her town and follows/keeps up to date with whatever the boy band is up to through social media. Through this interview i believe i can get use of a lot of useful information.
ReplyDelete1. When did you first become a directioner?
2. What characteristics do you believe make you a directioner?
3. Before one direction, were you a major fan of another band?
4. When did One Direction really catch your attention?
5. What is your favorite One Direction song and why?
6. Do you think that you will always consider yourself a "directioner"?
7. Who is your favorite boy in the band and why?
8. Do you feel that One Direction has contributed for your life in a positive way? If so, explain.
9. Do you think One Direction contributes to other peoples lives, any age?
10. If the band were to ever separate, do you think that you would still be as involved in the directioner community?
For my Ethnography I would like to interview contractor Rick Nursey of Nursey Homes. Mr. Nursey is an experienced contractor in the custom home industry that has been working in the field for over 25 years. He currently is working on multiple custom remodel and new construction jobs across Central Florida. His insight and experience in the custom home community allows for me to learn information about the business that I was otherwise unaware of, also his role as a head contractor will help me to better understand the communicative aspect behind the process of building custom homes.
ReplyDelete1.)How do you communicate effectively with all of your workers?
2.)What is the most common medium of communication that you use when communicating with workers?
3.)What is the hardest part about keeping everyone on the job on schedule?
4.)What is the most important part about your job?
5.)In the custom home industry, what is the most important thing to have in order to be successful?
6.)How do you choose the right workers for the job?
7.)How do you communicate with workers when they do something wrong or poorly?
8.)Do you use any language when communicating with workers that is specific to the custom home industry?
9.)How do you communicate effectively with home owners?
10.)How you do communicate with home owners when they have problems with certain aspects of the home?