What face do we want to show people? what side of us do we want other to see and which side shouldn’t we show people.
How can we self interview? are our questions going to be genuine with no one looking ? or are we putting on another facade? How much do we know about ourselves and do we want to find out? All the questions had risen when contemplating how to interview myself. Am I just rambling or am I saying something of substance? or am I rehearsing for a potential interview with someone.
It’s an interesting conversation in how we engage in self-talk. We move from an internal dialogue to an external dialogue where we can actually analyze and hear ourselves. I interviewed myself the other day and the exercise was to listen to yourself again and again over several days. It was very interesting listening to myself talk and how I used my words to describe myself, however I did feel awkward some where in the middle where I felt that I was continuously rambling.
The question of authenticity is a very lively topic in cultural studies. What is authentic, what is not authentic. The idea of having to do a performance, whether to contain oneself or to build up a wall and be defensive. Which is very interesting in my opinion.
Today’s session was also about Summarizing the interview between Bell hooks and Charlie Rose. Bell Hooks is communicating about postmodern feminism is what she stands for. and the idea of
Interviewing – we need to ask questions to our partners on why we are in this course. We need to think about what it means to interview, what it means to me, what we think it is to ourselves and then building on this knowledge. I am starting from here and then what do I want to gain through this learning experience, looking at it from both roles, interviewer and interviewee. Looking at it from a journalist perspective will help us with our intercultural practices by us having to do a lot of work through representation and expanded sense of working through different kinds of mediums. Different kinds of communicating, enhancing our capacity to understand the difference, have empathy and sympathy for different practices.
The topic of interviewing is about what is called an entrance interview, why do you want study in this course, what’s interesting about intercultural practices, what is interculturalism. It’s important to mark now why it’s useful now as an area of study. Capturing expectations for the course and what we want to achieve and accomplish.
The outcome has to be something you guys are happy with and share it with the entire cohort. Post production is very important because it’s perfectly reasonable for you to go back and tell the person of what the person means and what was intended from the interviewee. Most students want to spend time with their cohorts.