workshop: challenging media stereotypes - excercise 2

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Asking about our environment

Interviews are particularly useful for getting the story behind a participant's experiences. The interviewer can pursue in-depth information around a topic. Interviews may be useful as follow-up to certain respondents to questionnaires, e.g., to further investigate their responses. Usually open-ended questions are asked during interviews.

Media has a played a major role in controlling how we stereotype one another. Stereotypes reduce a wide range of differences in people to simplistic categorizations, transform assumptions about particular groups of people into "realities" and can be used to justify the position of those in power perpetuate social prejudice and inequality

More often than not, the groups being stereotyped have little to say about how they are represented. Participants were asked to come up with questions to ask their fellow co-worker. Through the use of video they were asked to inquire more about each other and to also interview others in the school. This exercise was designed to engage the participants in a deeper interaction with one another and the kids and workers they see on a daily basis.

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