Interview Questions

In our doco film, we interviewed our FTV teacher, Mr Andrews, and we also interviewed some random girls at school. Here are the questions that we asked them.

MR ANDREWS QUESTIONS

• What are the issues that students come to you about that are related to social media?/Are there many students that come to you with issues that are dealing with social media?
• Do you see a lot of students using social media while you are trying to teach? Does this affect their learning?
• Should all social media sites be blocked completely at school?
• Are you guilty of using too much social media?
• Do you think there is any solution to this growing issue of addiction to social media?
• Explain your experiment with your year 12 class and having them place there phone at the from of the class at the beginning of class. Do you think this experiment has increased their attention in class and productivity with their work?
• Is it the social media’s fault or is it the youth fault for getting themselves so addicted?
• Do you think sites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. are aware that people are becoming obsessed? Do you think they are trying to change this?
• If social media sites value the protection of their consumers, for e.g. privacy, should their mental health come under that protection?

SCHOOL STUDENTS QUESTIONS

• How many hours a day do you think you spend looking at a device screen? 
• How many hours a day would you say you spend on social media?
• What social media app is your favourite and you think you spend most of your time on? Why do you like it so much?
• Have you ever stayed up late watching Netflix, YouTube or going on social media?
• How many hours of sleep would you say you get on average each night?

We had also planned to interview a psychologist at Griffith University, unfortunately they didn't get back to us. So this interview didn't go through. However, instead, Libby found a Television show interview where a man gave answers to most of the questions we were going to ask the psychologist. Which were:

PSYCHOLOGIST QUESTIONS

• Social media is a major part of the lives of our youth today. How can social media have a negative effect on people’s mental health?
• Do you think social media has a role to play in sleep deprivation?
• How can social media be linked to depression and anxiety within youth today? Do you think there is any relation between depression and anxiety and the constant use of social media and the need teenagers have to constantly keep up to date with what is going on online
• What are the effects of using too much social media? 
• Do you think teens and youth today will be better off without social media at all?
• Do you think the use and the addiction to social media will get worse through the younger generations? 
• Do you think the increased rate of mental health was due to the increased use of social media?