What will happen so far!

Opening Montage - 1 min
Interviews in Sheffield centre (youg people), Social Networking sites etc - 2 mins
Experiment intro - 30 secs
Stats, behavioral psychology - 30 secs
Experiment, introducing subjects - 1 min
Stats - social networking sites etc - 30 secs
Interviews in elderly home - 2 mins
NEW: Info on Technology - 1 min?
Experiment conclusion, subject interviews - 30 secs
Conclusion (with reference to Raymond Williams - Culture and Society) - 30 secs

Narrator:

You wake up in the morning. You take a shower, you have breakfast. You put on a pot of coffee. You leave the house, walking, or taking the bus or car. Along the way, you text. Talk on your phone. Listen to your iPod....
In today's society, these are all activities that take place during many people regular rountine. But what are we missing while we go about our day, oblivious to the people, and to what's around us..?

Titles roll

Narrator:
So, what has happened to our sense of awareness? Have we lost our ability to tune into society? Into what surrounds us?

Scene change, people in sheffield city centre, people walking by.

With the rise in popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, we found this to be not only an interesting topic, but also important for us to create a better understanding of social communication and behavior amongst people between the ages of 16-24.

We firstly went into Sheffield City Centre to begin our investigation into social interaction.

interview questions

Scene change, clips of people on facebook

throughout the ages, technology has been making communication easier. Social networking sites like facebook make it possible to stay connected to hundreds of people at a time. It is now even possible to keep in touch with friends and family without having to connect with them, through what is known as status updates. this is now known as the ambient model.

The social networking site Facebook has more than 300 million active users. In any given day 50% of the active users log in and each month more than 2 billion photos, 14 million videos and 3 million events are created. Not only can you access Facebook through your pc, you can also log in on your mobile phone. There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their phone or mobile devices.

Scene change. interior house, people coming in, meeting, shaking hands etc during narration.

To investigate further into whether or not social networks are affecting our social skills we conducted a social experiment.

Before the experiment, it was important to make sure that the subjects had never met. We put the subjects into a small room and simply asked them to wait, telling them that the experiment would begin when we took them out of the room in turn. However, the experiment in fact will study how our subjects will react to being forced into a social situation where they have to choose where they will socially stand, and whether or not they will choose to communicate with the others at all. We will return later to see how they communicate with each other and whether or not a social hierarchy emerges.

people walking around sheffield, on phones, ipods etc.

It was also important to note how behavioral psychology would affect the experiment. Social interaction is a fundamental part of everyday life, whether this be physically with other people or via communicative media.

In previous studies it has been found that when pairs of unacquainted peers were observed in free interaction, the rates of performance in verbal and non-verbal communication were significantly higher. This was also affected by seating arrangements, as it has been previously recorded that particular seating arrangements, for example sitting opposite each other, are more socially acceptable for people who are unacquainted. In a previous study, it was found that sitting side by side was considered the most intimate. People will sit across from one another until the distance between them exceeds the limit for comfortable conversation. We expect to see some evidence of this during the experiment.

back to experiment. subjects introducing themselves to camera