News boxes along a corner at 21st Street and Guadalupe, on-campus at the University of Texas at Austin

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

As Paige has already said, our group has started the interviews. In order to have a variety of answers, I chose to interview different types of people from different majors/extracurricular activities. I am interested to see if the type of activity students participate in has anything to do with their news interest. The fact that every student in my interviews are from a different type of major and extracurricular, this displays cultural capital.

Also, one of our questions in our interview is "Do you think that someone who is well-informed about the news has a higher social status?" A question like this is a way to see if people who obtain news regularly has a higher quantity of social status.

The last question is one that has to do with impression management. It questions why a student would obtain their news; for what purpose are they obtaining their news? If a student says he wants to talk about it with their friends, there is probably a higher chance that he might be trying to influence his friends' perceptions about him. He may use the news as a way to "impress" people on how knowledgable/informed he is.

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