Researching

Technology today makes it very easy to access he internet. Software is becoming more simply to use and people of all ages are able to use them.
We stereotype older generations to not use the internet and computers. Peoples lifestyles and jobs have an influence on whether they use the internet and computers. 

I did a case study on my Grandad and Nanna. They are both in their 70s and both use the computer and internet for very different things. My Nanna for example is still at work in a family run buisness and she does all the accounts for the company online. The computer and internet makes her job role alot easier. My Grandad on the other hand runs the family buisness aswel but his job role doesn't allow him to use the computer but by choice he has invested in a new touch screen computer for at home as in his day to day life he likes to check and keep up to date with Sky Sports News online as he is a huge Man City fan. Although he suffers from arthritis with the new technoplogy today his computer at home allows him to use touch screen rather than a mouse. I also spent the summer in Cyprus i was gone for over two months, my mum showed my Nanna how to Skype so we could talk from different parts of the world, it really helped us both. It enabled me to speak to my family members whilst being apart and it helped my Nanna learn to use a new networking site without even realizing. I have also shown my Nanna how to use Tesco online to help her with shopping and she has realized how helpful it is to her and she can also feel the benefit from giving her time up to use the internet.

If the older generation knew about the new technologies available to them and computers they may be influenced and encouraged to use the internet. Mia works in Apple and she explained some customers come into the shop and some of them do not even have or know what an e-mail address is. If this is the case 'People's Stories' may want to think about their current 'sign in' process they currently have on the website as an e-mail address is needed. To the older generation when visiting 'People's Stories' website might be put off by the signing in process.

Making their website an easy access may benefit with member joining and viewing their site.

Researching

The company is still further researching. Not all questionaires have been completed. But the majority of the results didn't show results that would define our answer and help us. There was a mixture of results. I think the range of the age we gave our questionnaire too had something to do with it. The youngest person i gave my questionnaire to was 13 and the eldest was 75. So with such a wide range it did not help. If i was to do the questionnaire again i would concentrate on the age between 50 year olds and older.

I think the problem with our question and when answering it we have to be careful in what we define as 'old people' and addressing issues of generation.

As a company we agreed that the older generation have grown up without the help of the internet and computers so in their eyes they don't see why they would need it now. The older generation would more likely use the internet and a website like 'People's Stories' if they saw a benefit in doing so and getting something back. This is opposite to the younger generation nowadays as social networking sites allows people to upload pictures of themselves and write status's about themselves and their lives which is telling a story themselves but they don't expect anything back as they like telling their friends on 'Facebook' about what they did at the weekend just a way of expressing themselves. The company discussed how if older people was to use the internet they would use it to recieve information whereas the younger generation use the internet to give information.

Reading Week

During this week i returned home to manchester for the week. As part of research we decided as a company that a questionaire would be helpful research.
As a company we came up with the following questions:

1. Do you own a computer?

Yes     No

2. Do you have wifi at home?

Yes     No

3. Do you have an email address?

Yes     No

4. How often do you use the computer?

Everyday     2-7 times a week     Once a Week     Once a Month     Never

5. Would you be willing to dedicate more time into learning how to use the

internet and computer?

Yes     No

6. Do you have a social networking account ie. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn,

Bebo?

Yes     No

7. Would you be willing to invest more money in new technology such as an ipad,

iphone or other smartphone?

Yes     No

8. What do you mainly use the computer/internet for?
Pleasure     Work     Don't Use

Hopefully the results of the questionaires will help guide us in the right direction with how we are going to conclude our answer.

Groups

In Todays Lecture we voted what question we would like our company to answer.

1. Rebel Play
2. Peoples Stories
3. CBeebies
This was the order i wrote down on my piece of paper. I was in a group with Amy schank and Mia Gregory.The question our company got given was Peoples Stories. I feel i could have answered the Rebel Play pitch well, but only because i feel i can relate to that question more as i am a female. But alot of research into Peoples Stories will indeed help conclude Hurricane films with an approved and helpful answer to help them with their project People Stories-Liverpool Lives.

Peoples Stories Website Here - i am going to research more into Peoples Stories and look around the website.

Our company was shown how to use the 'Wiki' to share our research between each other. This will be helpfull to stay in contact and show each other our research. I think our company with use 'Prezi' to present our work in the end presentation. Rebel Play used it in their presentation to the class and i had never seen it be used before and i liked it. The presentation was more interesting than just a usual powerpoint presentation.

Our group has decided to do individual research whilst not in class. By looking at statistics and researching into the older generation.