Analysis Blogpost One: Evidence
Upon the beginning of Networked Media, we were given a blog that would represent part of our study. Over the course of Week Five, we had the task of documenting our media usage, whether this means what we listened to, watched, read or used. I have always been a pro-social media user, I use it for my own personal use, business and university. Being a millennial, there is much speculation that we would not be able to live without the internet, I agree to this statement.
Using and running my own blog for academic use has been both challenging and interesting, it has allowed me to show patterns in my media usage, something that I would not have seen had I not ventured in this endeavor. I have enjoyed having an academic blog, particularly for Networked Media as it can no only show my media documentation but how my reflections have changed over time.
From this documentation, I have been able to see my patterns, particularly my usage of social media both for personal use and business purposes. The most prevelant thing I have learned is my documentation of my social media usage and how I access these sites every day of the week, particularly Instagram and Facebook. Through these mediums, I not only create content (e.g.: share and upload a photo) but I also follow those interesting to me, engaging with their content through ‘likes’, ‘comments’ and reposting. Through this exercise of documenting my media usage over a week, I have noted that I have posted every three days on Instagram and communicated with people every day over Facebook Messenger. I not only connect with people via Instagram, Facebook and the like – I also have been reading other student’s blogposts for both my Media One course and my Networking Media course, something I have found particularly fascinating. I set up my media usage documentation in two ways; listing the applications and websites that I have accessed and then focusing on one in detail, expressing how I use it and an overview of the positives and negatives of how it impacts society and the media (e.g: my use of Netflix, elaborating on streaming services and downloadable content as a whole). This not only showed the overall position of a type of media in society, but how it impacts me personally.