summer work questionaire report

For some more summer work we were asked to ask some people about their preferences in the media. I wrote mine up in a report style essay:

Summer work-Questionnaire report
I was asked to talk to 10 people of different ages and ask their views on the media. I talked to a 4 year old, an 8 year old, a 11 year old, a 14 year old, a 22 year old, a 32 year old, a 38 year old, a 47 year old, a 62 year old and an 83 year old.

The first question I asked was which types of media did the person use the most. The children told me that the television was the most prominent use of media they had. With the teenager and the 22 year old the internets were the most popular. I think this is down to popular programs on the internet like msn and websites like bebo. Then I found that the 32, 38 and 47 year olds the television and news paper were the most prominent. The older people than this told me that they only read the newspaper.

The next question I asked was whether they thought the media affected the way they make decisions. With the children for this their parents told me that they come out with a lot of Americanised phrases and words. I also found that middle-aged people did not feel the media influence them in any way. The 62 and 83 year old told me that they were intimidated by the stories they read in the newspapers.
The next question I asked was how easy they thought it was for them to access the media. Both children didn’t seem to have an opinion on this, the 14 year old told me that it was difficult for him to access news that was relevant to him because he found it hard to watch the proper news. The 22 year old told me that she accessed the news on the internet. The middle aged people told me that they either watched the news on television every night after work the 62 year old told me she watched it on the telly and in her newspaper but the 83 year told me she sometimes found it hard to keep up with the news because she gets a weekly newspaper.

The next question I asked was how well they think the media has developed over the last ten years. This question was pretty much irrelevant to the children. The 14 year old told me he thought that the media had developed in such a way that it is so easy for him to find things out. The 22 year old told me she thought that the media had too much influence on people’s lives because it had grown so much. The 32 year old told me that he thought the media has outgrown its needs and that it is very over powerful. The 38 year old told me he thought the media had grown out of control and was a too powerful influential weapon. The 47 year old told me she thought that the media sometimes scares her in the fact that it influences the government in its decision making. The 62 year old and 83 year old told me she fears the fact the media has got so big.