Family Culture https://soundcloud.com/peoplespodcast/episode1

https://soundcloud.com/peoplespodcast/episode1The purpose of this project is to talk about how my culture/identity is affected by my family’s background, cultural background, and beliefs.This project was completed as part of... [ view full abstract ]

https://soundcloud.com/peoplespodcast/episode1

The purpose of this project is to talk about how my culture/identity is affected by my family’s background, cultural background, and beliefs.This project was completed as part of COMM 330: Intercultural Communication. I interviewed my grandparents, focusing on work ethic, love, and other influential qualities that have shaped my family. Using the research method autoethnography (research of self through first person narrative) I created a story that explains my cultural identity in relation to larger concepts of intercultural identity theory.

However, I did not want to just create a paper about intercultural identity but also expand that, using the skills I have learned in other communication classes and create an accompanying podcast using the interviews I taped as part of the writing process.

My podcast is titled “The People’s Podcast” and as the paper is titled, the first episode is called “Family Culture,” which is the episode based on the interviews from my research paper on intercultural identity. Through merging both traditional scholarly writing and new media I hope to tell a comprehensive story of how important family is to personal identity. The link to the podcast is attached with the title.