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

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Here is the transcript of the interviews that Stacy conducted:

Name: Jeremy Priest
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Extracurricular: No
What is the medium at which you obtain your news?
Internet, The daily Texan
Do you think that someone who is well informed about the news has a higher social status? 
No, not necessarily.
How frequently do you get your news? 
Near daily for the Daily Texan, or throughout the day for Internet.
What is your personal purpose for obtaining the news? 
Keeping up to date on current events happening around the world, not necessarily for conversation, but for knowledge about the University and the world.

Name: Kareece Sacco
Major: International Relations and Global Studies
Are you involved in any extracurricular activities on campus/volunteer organizations? Yes, Texas Tribe. It’s a social and service group on campus.
What is the medium at which you obtain your news?
Internet/ e-mail
Do you think that someone who is well informed about the news has a higher social status? 
No, not necessarily.
How frequently do you get your news?
Everyday.
What is your personal purpose for obtaining the news? 
Keep myself informed on what’s happening in the world around me.

Name: Cory Moczygemba
Major: Political Communications
Are you involved in any extracurricular activities on campus/volunteer organizations? If yes, which? I play intramural football and I am in Texas Wake
What is the medium at which you obtain your news?
Mostly Internet, Yahoo and some TV
Do you think that someone who is well informed about the news has a higher social status?
Not Necessarily, people of higher status may tend to watch the news more but now its so easy to access news and talked about so much I feel like everyone is some what informed
How frequently do you get your news?
Once or twice daily
What is your personal purpose for obtaining the news? 
Usually just cause its on. I don’t care much for news and usually just hear it from other people

Name: Victoria Ayala
Major: Nursing
Are you involved in any extracurricular activities on campus/volunteer organizations? If yes, which? Yes, I am in Hispanic Nursing Students Association and Operation Smile. Volunteering is incorporated in these organizations, currently with HNSA I am an American Heart Association Coach for the Get to Goal program and with Operation Smile we help raise awareness and funds for children born with cleft palates/lips.
What is the medium at which you obtain your news?
I am usually updated about current events through my email, the usual yahoo news or sometimes-even twitter.
Do you think that someone who is well informed about the news has a higher social status?
I don't think that being well informed about the news is necessarily tied to social status.
How frequently do you get your news?
Well I check my email constantly but I probably look at the news updates on yahoo about twice a day.
What is your personal purpose for obtaining the news?
My personal purpose for obtaining the news is to mainly stay informed about major issues and being able to inform others as well in some cases.

Name: Jefferson Remmert
Major: Public Relations
Are you involved in any extracurricular activities on campus/volunteer organizations? If yes, which? Texas Downhill (longboarding), and I sing and play guitar at various gigs with my band, The Knowhow.
What is the medium at which you obtain your news?
Yahoo News
Do you think that someone who is well informed about the news has a higher social status? 
Yes
How frequently do you get your news?
Daily
What is your personal purpose for obtaining the news? So I can know at least somewhat of what’s going on in the world.


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