Interview with a Basketball Coach About His Experiences with Digital Technologies

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Title

Interview with a Basketball Coach About His Experiences with Digital Technologies

Description

This is an oral interview with Bill conducted by JJ Halaby, whose goal is to obtain insights into the way Bill uses digital technologies. He is a man in his late 60s from Kentucky and now resides in Oxford, GA. He coaches basketball at Oxford College of Emory University.

JJ Halaby is a first-year student at Oxford College of Emory University. He was born outside of Baltimore, Maryland. His major is Business Administration/Management and he aspires to be either a sports agent or a general manager. His goal in this interview is to document generational uses of and relationships with digital technologies at a moment in history when we still have access to those considered “digital natives.” He also seeks to complicate the public’s understanding of the digital natives/immigrant metaphor through a public oral history archive.

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewee

Bill

Location

Oxford College of Emory University

Original Format

Transcript

Duration

8 pages

Interviewer

JJ Halaby

State/Province of Residence

Georgia

State/Province of Birth

Kentucky

Five-year birth range

1956-1960

Nationalities

American

Gender

Male

Race or ethnicity

White

Socioeconomic class

Middle

Main Languages

English

Occupation

Basketball coach

Length of digital device access

24 years

Coding/markup languages

None

Device Type

smartphone

Device Make and Model

Samsung S9

Files

Citation

“Interview with a Basketball Coach About His Experiences with Digital Technologies,” Archive of Personal Digital History, accessed May 9, 2025, https://apdh.oxomeka.org/items/show/31.

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