What: For my documentary I am going
to see how people use twitter to get their news from the outside world. Since
our generation has grown up with a new sense for technology, we spend a good amount
of our time on social media sites. Now that most of us are so busy with school
and college in general, we don’t have time to sit around watching the news or
reading the local newspaper. Since we are all, already spending a good amount
of our time on twitter and with how much people post about major events or
things that are happening in the world, it is easy to find out the majority of
major news just through twitter. Thesis: Twitter is a college student’s revenue
for news. I also plan on asking the
following questions to different college students: How often do you watch the
news and/or read the newspaper? How much of your day do you spend on twitter?
How much global or national news do you find out through twitter? I also want
to see how people do get info from twitter, is it just on their newsfeed and
they stumble upon it? Or are they going and hunting for this info?
Who: My audience will be busy
college students at UK that have very hectic schedules will little free time.
Maybe try to get students who are involved in lots of different clubs or
organization, who don’t have much extra time on their hands. I want to see how
much time (if any) college students have to get informed about events happening
all over the world.
Why: If possible I want to see how
many college aged students follow big news stations. For example, locally I am
going to look at LEX18 News and nationally CNN and ABC News. I want to see if
college age students are getting there info from these twitter pages or just
from their friend’s tweets or retweets.
Where: I plan on getting some shots
in the dorm room and various sites around campus of people on twitter. I might
possibly have a shot in the library or student center of people on twitter, or
just walking to class
When: I plan on shooting some shots
in the next few weeks, depending on when I have time and can get interviews
from different people.
How: I also want to see how people
get connected through other things through twitter. It seems that almost all
large companies or organizations have twitter pages. So it would be interesting
to see who and what kinds of people follow some of these group. Most
businesses, from small locally to huge nationally, have twitter accounts and
use them to connect to their customer through twitter. Since most everyone of
the younger generation is on twitter, it is an easy way to connect with them
and get their attention.
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