The first podcast I listened to was the Batman podcast. This one was very enlightening to the the way people can affect others, just by the what they think about them. It's evident that it is a profile by how the entire piece is from the perspective of the person as he's being interviewed. He is asked questions and uses stories to answer those questions, like the the time he told a story about him helping another blind person by making him climb the tree. The other piece was more about different people's experiences during a certain period. The first one seems to be organized chronologically, from the beginning of his life onward, whilst the other was more about the little anecdotes told by different people.
I believe that I am going to study the children at the child watch at the YMCA my girlfriend works at. I do not know, and have never met any of the kids there, so I feel like I could easily observe them without bias. I plan on observing them interact with each other and then possibly ask them questions about what they like to do with friends and how they talk about them. I believe they can show me how kids are hardwired to be social and how that must evolve as they get older.
Tony,
ReplyDeleteYou give a nice summary of each of the podcasts, but I'm still wanting to know more about how you see them as examples ofr the kind of writing this project asks you to do and what are they really about--their "so whats."
In terms of your project, I think this sounds like a really cool ethnographic idea! I'm wondering, though, how it fits with your critical question. My other concern is that you might run into some resistance from the people at the YMCA because they may want you to have permission from parents to film the children. I don't think this is an insurmountable hurdle, I just think it's one we'll need tot alk through and trouble shoot.