Pose
a research question about what is going on in the Gaming transcript.
Do your best to ask a question that will allow you to discuss criteria
requested on the Short Analysis Assignment Sheet. List/point out
the evidence from the transcript that you will use to develop your
answer. (One important criterion for a good research questionis that it
is a question your data set can answer. That is, there needs to
be evidence in the data to support an answer.)
Question:
How does the interviewee (B) deal with interviewer's (CH) resistance to his answers?
Throughout the data, it seemed as though B's answers were met with resistance. The interview did not have a natural flow because the interviewer persisted in trying to get a certain answer out of B. The following serves as evidence in the data that shows what B did to answer the questions despite the resistance.
Evidence:
Example A:
Ch I wanted to talk a little, you talk
about your self as a hardware expert, you said software novice, although I
bullied you into being competent, what software do you know how to use?
B
you know, what everyone else knows how to use, word, frontpage,
powerpoint, excell, spreadsheet things
Ch so
it's interesting, games aren't really considered software are they?
B
they are – agrees - reluctantly
Ch so you
know lots of software
B
yeah, but it's just games (laughing)
Here I have highlighted B's initial answers to CH's questions. We see his natural way of answering the first question. CH then pushes him to consider his abilities in games as an expertise in software. His answer to question two shows his agreeance with resistance. By question number three, he agrees and goes back to his initial answer that it was just games with a laugh. I would argue that this might be an awkward or nervous laugh since its obvious that she kept pushing for the software connection.
Example B:
Ch that's
literacy - you have the basic tools, the right basic set of assumptions for how
to read, understand, interpret a program. And so what I'm looking for is
the connection between all the gaming experience you have and your ability to
do that with the applications - the academic applications
B
well like a lot of games, in the beginning, there's menus. You don't just
start playing. There's menus, you get to customize your decal your spray,
clothes,
laughing
It's not all playing
the game it's a lot of process to prepare for it, there's like box, scripts,
you practice it, and you're not playing with other people, you're
Ch OK so all
those things - same kinds of processes, same kinds of moves - so navigating
menus is something you learned from games that can carry over - anything else?
B
I think that is the main thing, I can't connect a First person shooter with
Microsoft word, that would be a real stretch
This example shows how CH continues to show resistance in B's answer. Only in these questions there are specific instances where CH is telling B exactly what she expect from his answers (blue highlights). CH states "what I am looking for is..." and "so navigating menus is...". Here B has not excuse but to follow her direction. There is another laugh within his answer. And while he agrees with her in the last question, he still manages to interjects some of his original point that its just games when he states that making the connection "would be a real stretch".
