Description of Interview Topic The purpose of this interview is to find out how people obtain information about current events and to determine whether people use different sources for types of information. A test subject was interviewed for forty-five minutes via Skype and asked a series of questions about their information-seeking habits. The subject, a man in his fifties, participated in the interview. Employed as a postman at Canada Post for thirty years, he is a Canadian citizen residing in British Columbia. The highest level of education held is a high school diploma.Summary of Information-Seeking HabitsTo summarize the subject's information-seeking habits, the interviewer, as Wildemuth suggests, looked for themes and patterns in the responses. As Ryan and Russell recommend, the interviewer looked for repetition in the subject's responses to determine his or her information-seeking habits. The subject expressed interest in current events and demonstrated understanding and familiarity with the current events posed during the interview. The subject demonstrated strong curiosity but remained an active participant. The subject expressed interest in national, international and political news and demonstrated deep concern about events such as the Harper government's plans to change public service pensions and its knowledge of economic issues in Europe. Entertainment news has not generated the same level of interest. Although the subject did not like this type of information, he explained that he did not generally seek it out and was "less interested in celebrities than other information." The interview revealed that the subject did not go to different sources for different types of information. The subject is more interested in a well-established middle of paper......concerned about whether he got news from social media, the subject did not understand. An illustrative example has been used to help you. Once heard that “…some people get news from Facebook, we could have learned of Whitney Houston's death through a status update…”, the subject clearly understood. Throughout the interview, illustrative questions were helpful in clarifying the meaning of certain questions. Works Cited Patton, Michael Q. Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods. 2nd ed. California: Sage Publications, 1990. Print. Ryan, Gery W and H. Russell Bernard. “Techniques for identifying themes in qualitative data.” » Field Methods 15.1 (2003): 85-109. Internet. February 17, 2012. Wildemuth, Barbara M. Applications of Social Research Methods to Information and Library Science Issues. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2009. Print.