mass media
Interviews
Interviewer: Roy Versluis
Interviewed: Will Corijn and Greet Duifsman
The main role of mass media has changed a lot , He said, Back in his time and at his place there was not really a lot of internet and stuff, there was only the local newspaper which was delivered every week, which was filled with local news, this was also because of the germans invading the netherlands at the time Roy's Grandfather was young, Not a lot of new info was being released and over the course of time he said that the internet and mass media has developed ever since with the come of the television, color television and then the coming of the internet.
Name: Mena
Age: 84
Gender: Female
Interviewer: Ilias
1. How many people were there in your family?
How many people lived in the same house?
- We consisted out of 6 people in total. I was one of the youngest so when I turned 15, my oldest sister married so whe were with 5.
2. What was the profession of your father / mother?
- My mother used to work in healthcare but after she got her first child, she had to take care of him. When all her children turned a bit older, She returned and worked there for like 5 to 10 years. I don’t know a lot about my father because he died when I was 2 years old.
3. Where did you live with your parents (please add map - Google Maps)?
- We lived in Morocco in a town called Ben Tayeb also known as Beni Oulichek.
4. Do you remember any historical fact / event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) either in India or in EU or worldwide? Why were you impressed by that event?
- Yes I do. I can still remember the second world war in Europe. I was impressed because it was horrifying. So much people got killed.
What kind of mass media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV) were available in your family?
- We had a lot of radio’s because my brother used to sell radio’s. He always gave us some if we needed. Next to that there were a lot of newspapers and magazines. We did not have a TV though. But know we have.
Was the internet available? Explain with examples.
- Yes and no. Wifi was in the old days quite new so if you needed wifi, you had to go to a nearby library or something like that. But everyone has nowadays wifi!
What kind of mass media were most popular in your family when you were a teenager?
- Mostly about the second world war.
Was reading popular?
- Reading was not that popular but if we were at school we had to read like in front of the class or our teacher read for us. But that was a really really really long time ago.
2. How expensive was it to purchase a radio, a television, newspapers, magazines, books, a computer?
Was a well-equipped library available?
- I don’t really remember to be honest but newspapers were everywhere so that must be not that expensive.
3. How much time of your daily life did you spend on reading books when you were a teenager? Explain.
- I liked to read books about a bunny or something like that. I do not remember the name to be honest.
How much time of your daily life did you spend at the computer when you were a teenager? Explain.
- We got teached by the old fashion way which was paper and pen. We did not have computers.
4. Favourites
What was the favourite magazine/programme in your family?
- It must have been football. My brothers were always at the nearby coffee house where they watched football together.
What was your favourite magazine/programme? Explain.
- I did not have one. But if I had to choose it must be that magazine which shows you all kinds of different crafts.
What were your favourite books? Explain.
- As I said, the bunny book. Always when we had to read, I ran to the bunny book so I could read it.
Were favourite magazines/programmes discussed in your family?
- Yes. Always football football and again football. My two brothers were sometimes getting into a discussion about who played better.
5. Can you explain what the positive and negative aspects of the mass media were in your country when you were a teenager? Did mass media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV) cause bad effects on people when you were a teenager? Examples?
- Yes about the second world war. There was one moment where the amount of people got killed was shown. Everyone was shocked. This was a couple of years later when I turned 14.
6. Can you describe briefly how the presence of different types of mass media and of computers and of the internet in your household has changed since you were a teenager?
- We nowadays don’t use radio’s anymore. Only when u are like that worker who builds houses or something like that and then turns on the radio for some music. And the TV’s are nowadays really thin. In our days they were thicker than a brick.
7. What are the positive aspects of these changes? Are there any negative aspects of these changes? Explain.
- A advantage is that the world is like really connected. I can make a call to a person in America with only one click on my phone. A disadvantage is that a lot of people have like eye problems. A lot of people wear glasses like you. I also have to wear glasses but I sometimes can not find them.
Name: Maartje
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Interviewer: Tim
Lived in Schoorl
1. With How many people did you live in one house?
With 3 people me, my mom and my twin sister.
2. What was your father job?
He was a french teacher.
3. What type of mass media was available in your family?
The radio, television, the house telefoon but no internet.
4. How expensive was a radio and a television?
I don’t know
5. How long did you read or were you on the internet?
I read 30 minutes before going to bed and more in the vacations.
6. What was your favorite book or program?
Roahldahl books.
7. Were kids influenced by mass media in your time?
No there was no mass media.
8. Can you explain how the computers/televisions improved?
Black and white televisions got color and there was a new channel added called NL3 the others were NL1 and NL2.
9. What were the negative and positive changes of this?
Positive: you get way more news.
Negative: people get addicted.
10. Which important events were special to you? (12-16 years old)
Doemaar the band stops.
Name: Jeroen
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Interviewer: Tim
Lived in Ridderkerk
1. With How many people did you live in one house?
With 4 people me, my mom, my dad and my sister.
2. What was your father job?
He was a structural engineer and entrepreneur.
3. What type of mass media was available in your family?
The radio, television, the house telefoon and later a computer.
4. How expensive was a radio and a television?
Tv was 800 gulden, radio 200 gulden.
5. How long did you read or were you on the internet?
I read 30 minutes before going to bed but 0 minutes on the internet.
6. What was your favorite book or program?
Program: Ren, je rot.
Book: Autovisie.
7. Were kids influenced by mass media in your time?
No there was no mass media.
8. Can you explain how the computers/televisions improved?
Computers got way faster and mor storage, from green and white televisions to colored televisions and more channels.
9. What were the negative and positive changes of this?
Positive: acces to way more information.
Negative: you can’t do anything in secret.
10. Which important events were special to you? (12-16 years old)
The CD player was invented.
Name: Frans
Age: 74
Interviewer: Ryan
1. With how many people did you live in one house?
5 2 daughters and one son
2. What was your fathers job?
Iron foundry manager.
3. Where did you live?
Barendrecht
4. Which important events were special to you? (12-16 years old)
The flood of 1953
5. What type of mass media was popular?
Radio was popular and the newspaper
6. What type of mass media was available in your family?
There was no internet.
7. Was reading pupelar?
Reading was popular
8. How expensive were the radio and the newspaper?
The price of the radio and newspaper were not that high.
9. How much time did you spend on reading?
NOT very much
10. How much time did you spend on the computer?
There was no computer
11. What was the favourite magazine/programme in your family?
Leesmap
Dinsdag avond trein favourite programme.
12. What were the positive effects of mass media?
Book reading on radio
13. Were there any bad effects of mass media?
There were no bad effects.
Interviewer: Jimmy
Mark-Jan(45), Kim(40)
Q1:
Newspapers, magazines, radio and TV were all widely available and specifically TV was used the most used form of media.
Q2:
Overall things used to be cheaper(radio’s weren’t used as much with the exception of built-in radios in cars
Q3:
Mom used to read a lot of books as a teenager, my dad not so much. Mostly because my mom was very interested in literature and history whereas my dad really wasn’t.
My parents didn’t spend any time behind a computer in their teenage years(computers weren’t yet used outside of the occasional business in the 80s/early 90s).
Q4:
Mom: Didn’t watch much TV or read much magazines with her parents.
Dad: Used to watch a lot of “cheers”, but no magazines.
Mom: The Wonder Years and Smash Hit.
Dad: ALF and didn’t read magazines.
Mom: Matilda.
Dad: didn’t have one.
Both parents answered no
Q5:
Though older people were always bashing on modern media(even then), in general the media didn’t cause much violence that wasn’t already inevitable.
Q6:
The media has had a much larger presence since the rise of the internet and social media. Back then, almost nobody had a computer at home, but now it’s weird if you don’t have one.
Q7:
Positive: everything is so much more convenient and listening to music doesn’t require buying anything at a store but can just be downloaded.
Negative: The internet can definitely be dangerous and can be abused.
Interviewer: Roy Versluis
Interviewed: Will Corijn and Greet Duifsman
The main role of mass media has changed a lot , He said, Back in his time and at his place there was not really a lot of internet and stuff, there was only the local newspaper which was delivered every week, which was filled with local news, this was also because of the germans invading the netherlands at the time Roy's Grandfather was young, Not a lot of new info was being released and over the course of time he said that the internet and mass media has developed ever since with the come of the television, color television and then the coming of the internet.
Name: Mena
Age: 84
Gender: Female
Interviewer: Ilias
1. How many people were there in your family?
How many people lived in the same house?
- We consisted out of 6 people in total. I was one of the youngest so when I turned 15, my oldest sister married so whe were with 5.
2. What was the profession of your father / mother?
- My mother used to work in healthcare but after she got her first child, she had to take care of him. When all her children turned a bit older, She returned and worked there for like 5 to 10 years. I don’t know a lot about my father because he died when I was 2 years old.
3. Where did you live with your parents (please add map - Google Maps)?
- We lived in Morocco in a town called Ben Tayeb also known as Beni Oulichek.
4. Do you remember any historical fact / event when you were a teenager (between 12 and 16 years old) either in India or in EU or worldwide? Why were you impressed by that event?
- Yes I do. I can still remember the second world war in Europe. I was impressed because it was horrifying. So much people got killed.
What kind of mass media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV) were available in your family?
- We had a lot of radio’s because my brother used to sell radio’s. He always gave us some if we needed. Next to that there were a lot of newspapers and magazines. We did not have a TV though. But know we have.
Was the internet available? Explain with examples.
- Yes and no. Wifi was in the old days quite new so if you needed wifi, you had to go to a nearby library or something like that. But everyone has nowadays wifi!
What kind of mass media were most popular in your family when you were a teenager?
- Mostly about the second world war.
Was reading popular?
- Reading was not that popular but if we were at school we had to read like in front of the class or our teacher read for us. But that was a really really really long time ago.
2. How expensive was it to purchase a radio, a television, newspapers, magazines, books, a computer?
Was a well-equipped library available?
- I don’t really remember to be honest but newspapers were everywhere so that must be not that expensive.
3. How much time of your daily life did you spend on reading books when you were a teenager? Explain.
- I liked to read books about a bunny or something like that. I do not remember the name to be honest.
How much time of your daily life did you spend at the computer when you were a teenager? Explain.
- We got teached by the old fashion way which was paper and pen. We did not have computers.
4. Favourites
What was the favourite magazine/programme in your family?
- It must have been football. My brothers were always at the nearby coffee house where they watched football together.
What was your favourite magazine/programme? Explain.
- I did not have one. But if I had to choose it must be that magazine which shows you all kinds of different crafts.
What were your favourite books? Explain.
- As I said, the bunny book. Always when we had to read, I ran to the bunny book so I could read it.
Were favourite magazines/programmes discussed in your family?
- Yes. Always football football and again football. My two brothers were sometimes getting into a discussion about who played better.
5. Can you explain what the positive and negative aspects of the mass media were in your country when you were a teenager? Did mass media (newspapers, magazines, radio, TV) cause bad effects on people when you were a teenager? Examples?
- Yes about the second world war. There was one moment where the amount of people got killed was shown. Everyone was shocked. This was a couple of years later when I turned 14.
6. Can you describe briefly how the presence of different types of mass media and of computers and of the internet in your household has changed since you were a teenager?
- We nowadays don’t use radio’s anymore. Only when u are like that worker who builds houses or something like that and then turns on the radio for some music. And the TV’s are nowadays really thin. In our days they were thicker than a brick.
7. What are the positive aspects of these changes? Are there any negative aspects of these changes? Explain.
- A advantage is that the world is like really connected. I can make a call to a person in America with only one click on my phone. A disadvantage is that a lot of people have like eye problems. A lot of people wear glasses like you. I also have to wear glasses but I sometimes can not find them.
Name: Maartje
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Interviewer: Tim
Lived in Schoorl
1. With How many people did you live in one house?
With 3 people me, my mom and my twin sister.
2. What was your father job?
He was a french teacher.
3. What type of mass media was available in your family?
The radio, television, the house telefoon but no internet.
4. How expensive was a radio and a television?
I don’t know
5. How long did you read or were you on the internet?
I read 30 minutes before going to bed and more in the vacations.
6. What was your favorite book or program?
Roahldahl books.
7. Were kids influenced by mass media in your time?
No there was no mass media.
8. Can you explain how the computers/televisions improved?
Black and white televisions got color and there was a new channel added called NL3 the others were NL1 and NL2.
9. What were the negative and positive changes of this?
Positive: you get way more news.
Negative: people get addicted.
10. Which important events were special to you? (12-16 years old)
Doemaar the band stops.
Name: Jeroen
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Interviewer: Tim
Lived in Ridderkerk
1. With How many people did you live in one house?
With 4 people me, my mom, my dad and my sister.
2. What was your father job?
He was a structural engineer and entrepreneur.
3. What type of mass media was available in your family?
The radio, television, the house telefoon and later a computer.
4. How expensive was a radio and a television?
Tv was 800 gulden, radio 200 gulden.
5. How long did you read or were you on the internet?
I read 30 minutes before going to bed but 0 minutes on the internet.
6. What was your favorite book or program?
Program: Ren, je rot.
Book: Autovisie.
7. Were kids influenced by mass media in your time?
No there was no mass media.
8. Can you explain how the computers/televisions improved?
Computers got way faster and mor storage, from green and white televisions to colored televisions and more channels.
9. What were the negative and positive changes of this?
Positive: acces to way more information.
Negative: you can’t do anything in secret.
10. Which important events were special to you? (12-16 years old)
The CD player was invented.
Name: Frans
Age: 74
Interviewer: Ryan
1. With how many people did you live in one house?
5 2 daughters and one son
2. What was your fathers job?
Iron foundry manager.
3. Where did you live?
Barendrecht
4. Which important events were special to you? (12-16 years old)
The flood of 1953
5. What type of mass media was popular?
Radio was popular and the newspaper
6. What type of mass media was available in your family?
There was no internet.
7. Was reading pupelar?
Reading was popular
8. How expensive were the radio and the newspaper?
The price of the radio and newspaper were not that high.
9. How much time did you spend on reading?
NOT very much
10. How much time did you spend on the computer?
There was no computer
11. What was the favourite magazine/programme in your family?
Leesmap
Dinsdag avond trein favourite programme.
12. What were the positive effects of mass media?
Book reading on radio
13. Were there any bad effects of mass media?
There were no bad effects.
Interviewer: Jimmy
Mark-Jan(45), Kim(40)
Q1:
Newspapers, magazines, radio and TV were all widely available and specifically TV was used the most used form of media.
Q2:
Overall things used to be cheaper(radio’s weren’t used as much with the exception of built-in radios in cars
Q3:
Mom used to read a lot of books as a teenager, my dad not so much. Mostly because my mom was very interested in literature and history whereas my dad really wasn’t.
My parents didn’t spend any time behind a computer in their teenage years(computers weren’t yet used outside of the occasional business in the 80s/early 90s).
Q4:
Mom: Didn’t watch much TV or read much magazines with her parents.
Dad: Used to watch a lot of “cheers”, but no magazines.
Mom: The Wonder Years and Smash Hit.
Dad: ALF and didn’t read magazines.
Mom: Matilda.
Dad: didn’t have one.
Both parents answered no
Q5:
Though older people were always bashing on modern media(even then), in general the media didn’t cause much violence that wasn’t already inevitable.
Q6:
The media has had a much larger presence since the rise of the internet and social media. Back then, almost nobody had a computer at home, but now it’s weird if you don’t have one.
Q7:
Positive: everything is so much more convenient and listening to music doesn’t require buying anything at a store but can just be downloaded.
Negative: The internet can definitely be dangerous and can be abused.