Next Step!

I've been doing the research and now it's time to start to think about filming and who I am going to interview. To find people willing to be interviewed I am using the snowball effect and have created a facebook event where I invited all my St. Lawrence facebook friends. Now I just need to wait and see if anyone responds. 

I think not only is using facebook a good way to attract people to my documentary and see if they are willing to be interviewed but I also think it will be interesting to see how the facebook event plays a role in volunteers. About ten years ago if you wanted to invite your friends to any kind of event you either emailed them or called them, but facebook is an easy way to invite your friends to something all at once. I invited about 300 people, but I am guessing that the number that respond will probably be 20 of my close friends. This is also an interesting thing to consider because since I am most likely going to attract close friends why couldn't I just call them or send them personalized emails? In that sense we need to question if facebook really does make a difference. This is related to whether facebook as a communication device brings us together (I could call my friends) or tear us apart? Does facebook really help people keep in touch more? 

These are all rhetorical questions that I can't answer and may never fully be able to, but through these interviews I hope I get a better understanding of why we as a community are so attracted to this form of communication.

On a somewhat separate note, I am also going to to contact the professor who made her first year students last year stop using all forms of technology, including computers and cell phones. I want to talk to her about why she decided to do this and see if she participated herself. I also am going to ask her for a class list of the now sophomores who participated in her class and were required to drop all forms of technology. Will keep you posted as my project develops further.