1st day update

It's 2:25 pm Tel Aviv time and I've just finished my sixth interview of the day. I had high expectations for how much I would enjoy the work I'm doing, but my experiences so far have even exceeded those expectations! So far every interview has been conducted in a cafe or outside in a park. This has made video recording quite problematic, in addition to the audio generally being rough. As a result it looks like most interviews will just have audio recordings and not video to accompany it. In addition, when I asked my participants about video recording they all seemed ok with it, but I sensed several people were a little uncomfortable when thinking about it. This is unfortunate as analyzing the body language of the participants would add an interesting element to the research, but I think it is more important to get as many interviews as possible and keeping people comfortable for the tough questions. I'm also realizing that despite me trying hard to find diversity amongst the participants it's difficult because the connections I'm relying on to find people are personal connections. Most of my friends are young, Jewish, and left-wing. Surprisingly, the hardest part in my search for variety has been finding people that are not young. But it is also a given when doing a study on the internet media, that a disproportionate amount of people will be 30 and below. With almost every interview thus far, I've realized slightly different ways to phrase the questions and get more directly to the valuable information everyone has to contribute on the subject. Below is my updated list of questions, with some of the clarification questions grouped together before now on their own. 1) Would you use the phrase 'The 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict' to describe the events between June 2014-August 2014? If so, why? If not, what term would you prefer and what are your reasons for choosing that term? What are some adjectives/descriptors you use to describe the conflict?

2) Do you think that there is one party that bears primary responsibility for the escalation of violence between Hamas and the IDF in June of 2014? Why?

3) In the context of the conflict, what is one event/issue you wished the internet media broadly speaking gave more coverage to? Why?

4) In the context of the conflict, what is one event/issue you think the internet media broadly speaking gave too much coverage to? Why?

5) What internet media did you generally access to be informed about events during [preferred term]? What are the (clarification: not including social media)

6) What makes these media sources valuable, in your view? 7) What sources do you specifically avoid? Why? 8) What social media do you frequent for news? For twitter, reddit, facebook, etc. who do you follow/what subreddits do you frequent/etc.? Are you generally a passive consumer or do you participate by commenting, retweeting, posting, etc.? When using facebook/other social media how often is it about politics and the news versus other topics?

9) What do you think of the value of the news media versus social media? 10) How much of your information do you get from the media versus social media?

11) Do you feel that the specific internet media you consume provided fair coverage of the 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict? Why?

12) Is there anything else you want to say about internet media coverage of the 2014 conflict, or about internet media coverage in general? 13) Is there a specific question you think I should have asked but didn't?