Media Diary
Our homework for this week was to create a media diary to see how much of our lives are dominated by the media. By completing my media diary i can see that most of my evenings are ruled by the media in in way or another.
Thursday
6pm – 9pm
Facebook, i went on this for the whole three hours, on and off, to check if i had any new posts, i was not constantly on it but it was always up on the dock
YouTube, i went on YouTube to see a video that someone had told me about, this lasted 15 minutes
iTunes, i was listening to itunes the whole three hours. The kind of music i listened to was Katy Perry, Kings of Leon, Basshunter as these are my favourite songs at the moment.
9.30-10.15pm
TV- Friends, for half an hour
BBC News, for 15 minutes
Friday
5pm-7.30pm
iTunes, i listened to iTunes the whole two and a half hours i was on the computer. Songs i listened to: Katy Perry, Rihanna, Coldplay, Basshunter, Ne-Yo, Chris Brown.
Facebook, i only went on facebook for the first and laft 15 minutes to check if i had any mail
Msn, i was on Msn the whole time, however at different intervals i was seen as Away/Busy
8pm-10pm
TV- Friends for an hour
BBC News for half an hour
American Pie 2 for half an hour
I don't usually watch this much T.V, however i was babysitting therefore had limited access to the internet.
Saturday
12pm – 1pm
Msn, i only went on to check my emails then signed out again
Facebook, i was on this the whole hour
iTunes, i went on for the whole hour, and mainly listened to the songs in the Top Ten this week.
8pm-10pm
Facebook, i only went on this for half an hour
Msn, i was on Msn for the whole two hours but appearing Busy or Away for most of the time
Sunday
1pm-3pm
iTunes, iTunes was only rumming for half an hour to buy songs
Msn, i did go on Msn for the two hours
Monday
7pm-8pm
Facebook, running the whole time
iTunes running the whole time, on shuffle, therefore i cannot remember all the songs i listened to.
Tuesday
6.30pm-9pm
YouTube, i went on YouTube to watch a music video, 3 or 4 minutes
Facebook, on for the first hour
Msn, on for the whole time but again, sometimes i was Away or Busy
iTunes, running all the time
Wednesday
Had loads of work today :( so time on Msn and Facebook, and the all new Blogger was limited.
Went on iTunes for the time i was doing work, the only thing that makes writing essays bearable.
Finished at 8, and went to watch TV. Sat down to watch Friends, always comforting.
Then logged onto Msn and Facebook to read my millions of emails... :/
Total Media Consumption : 5 hours
3 comments:
That's an interesting list already.
Could you add how long within each time frame mentioned you have spent on each activity? E.G. if you've listed Yahoo, MSN and Google during one period of two hours, how long did you spend at each site?
Thanks for adding the times. It's scary how much of our lives disappear into media related activities; which for you seem to be online based.
The question is: does this represent a problem (lack of real socialisation for example) or is the natural evolution of modern Western society (keeping in mind that much of the world's population doesn't even have access to a telephone, let alone a PC and the internet)?
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