QUESTIONS:

Vox Pop & Expert Interviews

Representations

We originally decided to interview two people; Richard Mapperley and Hayley Hemmings.
Richard Mapperley is the ICT Services & Development Manager at The Sixth Form College, Solihull, whereas Hayley Hemmings is a Psychology teacher at the same college.
We then decided to interview two more people; Richard Jones and Nick Waring. Richard Jones works at The Sixth Form College, Solihull where he uses and handles technical equipment on a daily basis, and Nick Waring is the Head of Film and IT at The Sixth Form College, Solihull.
Richard Mapperley, Richard Jones and Nick Waring all represent people who use technology professionally, and have never considered what life would be like if they lived without it.
Hayley Hemmings would represent the people who are aware of the impact that technology has on the mind.
The vox-pop would represent the teenagers who use technology socially on a daily basis.

What item of technology do you use the most?
What piece of technology do you feel you take for granted the most?
Could you live without technology? If not then why?
How often do you use technology? And what do you use it for?
Do you think technology has a bad effect on society?
Do you think that the use of technology can be addictive?
What is your view on the advances of technology and the ways that it has become accessible to anyone?

Originally, we decided to use two sets of questions: one for experts who were specialised in technology, and one for experts who were familiar with psychology and the mind.
However, as we could not make contact with a psychology teacher, we were not able to put the questions we had in mind for a psychology teacher to use.

Do you think we rely too much on technology?
How far has technology advanced in the last decade?
Do you think technology has had a positive or a negative effect on our society?
Do you think we assume that technology will always be around for us to use?
What do you think a world without technology would be like?

Do you think technology is an addiction?
Why do you think we rely on technology so much?
Do you think there are any negative effects of technology on the human mind?
Do you think that technology has become a necessity rather than a luxury to us?
Overall, do you think technology is a benefit or a disadvantage to our state of mind?
Are we being encouraged to use social media, or are we all to blame for being obsessed with technology?

By sohailamir1996