In this week’s lectorial, we were dismissed early and ventured in groups to certain places around the city. My group and I were assigned to Bourke Street Mall and here we were asked to record different forms of media that we noticed. I suppose the point of this activity was to practice the art of ‘noticing’ and in doing so, I realised that there was media all around us. From the phone that I held in my hand to the printed adverts that I saw, media was produced in various forms. This can be through social media, music and moving images.

A list of the media I noticed included:

• Printed advertising posters hanged above in mall ceilings, front windows of shops and plastered on walls
• Printed cardboard stands advertising products
• Music played inside the mall
• Music from buskers outside
• Video adverts played on multiple screens
• Magazines
• Social media