Reading Blog #15

Summary/Main points

  • Interviews are not meant to be serious and are like a friendly conversation
  • Researching about people means stepping into their views 
  • Listen and record stories from a point of view of others.
  • Interview also involves closed questions which are questions that we answer on application forms or in magazines. Open questions draw out people's perspective and a more conversational exchange. No single answer. 
Quotes
"Even in an informal conversation, we conduct a kind of ethnographic interview." (219)
- Ethnographic interview, we can know more about the interviewee. 
"Interviewing involves an ironic contradiction: you must be both structured and flexible at the same time"
- It is important to be structured and flexible in order to bring out better and more flexibility.
"To avoid asking too many closed questions, you'll need to prepare ahead of time by doing informal research about your informants and the topics they represent."
- Know what your interviewee does without being seen as clueless. 

Question
Are there ever times when the question can be seen as too personal?

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