This week’s readings discuss the issue of “building rapport.” Oakley first criticizes the paradigms of traditional interviewing practice for being one-sided (information given to interviewer), hierarchical in nature, and impersonal. She then argues for a feminist approach in interviewing by the way of building rapport that minimizes the social distance between the interviewer and interviewee. On the other hand, Duncombe and Jessop questions this “building rapport” approach for “faking friendships.” Mainly, they are concerned with the commodification of interview relationships with regards to the issues of informed consent and reciprocity of emotions. While Duncombe and Jessop raise an interesting point regarding the “fake friendship” that interviewers
