This week I got a chance to look at my online media usage for Networked Media. As a media student at RMIT and a digital native, I engage with online media every single day. In week 5 we had to document on our academic blogs every time we interacted with media; everything we watched, read, created and published online.
It was interesting to document my media usage and become more self aware of my habits.
To structure the posts each day, I would list what online media I used or engaged with and then went into detail about a particular app or site to explore the usage more and not bore my audience.
I noticed that I use the same apps every day, check social media sites as soon as I wake up and before I go to bed and use them personally, academically and professionally. I would commence everyday taking mental notes about what I was engaging with but I could also go back onto the apps and search my history, particularly on Facebook and Instagram to see how many notifications I’d received in one day and what I posted or shared before I went to bed.
In terms of publishing, authoring and distributing, I published and authored a lot of my own content on Instagram (both my personal and online magazine’s account) and distributed a lot more on Facebook, for example ‘sharing’ news articles to my News Feed I thought my friends would find as interesting as I did.
It was interesting to think how mindlessly I interacted with online media, it’s incredibly ingrained into mine and many others lives and is just a part of the everyday. It’s also prevalent from companies and the government such as my use of the Public Transport App and my online banking. Online media is a part of nearly every facet of modern life and by engaging in the weekly report I can see how much it influences my everyday decisions and routines.