Interviews

Register your interest in an interview

While surveys are great for an overview, we'd like to know some more about you and your experiences as fans and/or working within the media industry.

This project is using a mixed methods approach, which means we're using quantitative (numbers and stats) AND qualitative (it's all about you and the feels) research. This will provide a deeper understanding of the affect of women's engagement on and through women centred sci-fi TV shows.

As creatives who work behind the scenes to bring these alternate worlds to life, or fans who contribute to an online community by posting , liking (yes lurkers count too), or making costumes, we are all taking an active part in culture creation. The shows and our communities in turn impact our understanding of the world and how we fit in it.

So we can get the complete picture of how and why you connect with Jessica Jones, Killjoys, or The Handmaid's Tale I will be conducting interviews with fan members and creatives. I would appreciate having the opportunity to chat with you further.

The interview will be conducted via videoconferencing (Zoom) at a mutually convenient time, and, with your permission, the interview will be audio-recorded. This is to help with accuracy of information and the recording will be deleted after transcription and all responses will be de-identified, unless explicit approval has been received from you to do otherwise. Your privacy is of the utmost importance and all data collected will be stored securely as per USC’s Research Data Management Procedures.

Interviews are now finished. THANKS!

‘our real power comes from the personal; … Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings and begin to extrapolate from them, examine them for new ways of understanding our experiences. This is how new visions begin, how we begin to posit a new future nourished by the past’

Audre Lorde 1982