Project 2

Part 1

The “Summer Camp” is a great example of ethnography because there are so many examples of it in this podcast. Ethnography is a branch of anthropology that deals with the description of specific human cultures, using methods such as close observation and interviews. The pod cast was about the adventures of summer camp and how your best childhood moments can come from being in a summer camp. The interviewer interviewed many people in the summer camp like some of the kids in the camp and the camp counselor. He interviewed a guy named David who was a camp counselor and he was “the man” at the camp. Everyone loved him and respected him and David talks about his personal experiences with the summer camp. The interviewer also interviewed some kids and I can remember what they were talking about it was about a game they played called bloody Mary. They were arguing the whole interview because no one was quite sure how to actually do the bloody Mary ritual. After trying to say bloody Mary 40 times it didn’t work and you can hear a kid that is distant from the interviewer say, “I think you have to do it 50 times!” and this made me laugh because I can remember doing things like this when I was younger. In the podcast we hear callers answering the summer camp question and that drew me in more as a listener because hearing more stories about different camps made it easier to connect with because maybe you didn’t connect to what the kids in the camp were talking about, but you could relate to what the callers said.

            Becoming batman is about people’s expectations of people and how it can really affect a person. They talk about invisible things that can really affect a person. It shows profile because if you profile someone and set an expectation for someone it seems like they could do anything. They also interview people, the person I remember was a blind person that clicked to see where he was going. We hear from Daniel a blind person that can see by clicking and he feels like many blind people can do all the things he can do. He thinks that the expectations of blind people make them unable to do things.

Part 2

            When I was reading the guide lines for our next project I was kind of confused on what I wanted to do for this project. I knew it had to be something about video games and the Nicole gave me a great idea on one of her comments on one of my blogs. Her suggestion was to do a profile of a kid that plays video games and observe their behavior and I thought this was a great idea. I will probably observe my little cousin who is in love with video games just like me and I bet I can get some good observations of him. He likes Call of Duty so I’m sure I will get plenty of rage from him while he plays that. By observing and doing a profile on my cousin it can really shed some light on my question because he is a youth and I can see how these games impact him and make him feel.