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Curation of Blogs

If this was a fishing trip, then this curation post would be the final throw of the net.

The following five posts have been hand-picked by me to outline some of the key learning moments from the course, I have also added an annotation to explain why I made each particular choice.

 

1. “Goals and Keeping Score” – This was from the first Lectorial of the course, it outlined the goals for the end of the course as well as reflected on the reading and applying it to my own life

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jordan-williams/2015/03/03/goals-and-keeping-score/

 

2. “Noticing Your Dreams” – My favourite reading from the whole of Semester one is the Mason reading on Noticing, i found that this was applicable in my life and it was something which i often thought about.

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jordan-williams/2015/03/12/noticing-your-dreams/

 

3. “Detachment from Creation” – Reflection on the lectorial Paul Ritchard gave on serendipity. Caused me to ponder my own creative process

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jordan-williams/2015/03/21/detatchment-from-creation/

 

4. “Audio Recorda” – Thoughts about the nature of life, and equipment we use to capture it. Results of the Workshop on Audio Recording

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jordan-williams/2015/04/16/audio-recorda/

 

5. “Ageing Media Data” – Response to the Lectorial where Brian Morris spoke about media consumption and the ways in which it is now accessed.

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/jordan-williams/2015/06/04/ageing-media-data/

 

Looking at the posts i have selected, i realised that my best posts have been those that resonated with me, or spoke to a personal concern. I am quite thankful that this is the case as i often find it difficult to engage when there is no vested interest.

Finally, the learning graph for the semester has been attached below.

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Ageing Media Data

During the lectorial today Brian played a video about how much media Australians consume. Statistics ranging from the amount of TV people watched, all the way to the number of Tablets owned by the population. However, I found the statistics to be somewhat unbelievable. Meaning that I as a 20 year old Male living in Australia did not believe that people still preferred watching TV over browsing the internet.

So if we assume that the cenus was correct, why is it that I disagree with the statistics? This draws forward two potential thoughts for consideration; firstly, because i am only aware of the media consumption of similar demographic, and secondly, the weighting of the survey is equal and not objective.

The idea that i am only aware of media consumption within my demographic is fairly self explanatory; i prefer browsing the web to watching TV, my friends also do therefore, i would conclude that everyone does. Weighting of the survey however is a separate issue, for those of us who are mathematically inclined we will know about the normal distribution or bell curve, it is possible for this bell curve to be skewed if there is a bias of data on one side. I believe this happened with the survey. The data presented by Brian Morris might be mathematically accurate, however i dont believe this is a true representation. For this representation to be accurate we need to look more objectively and weigh up more strongly the media choices of those in the key consumer demographics. We know that currently in Australia we have an ageing population, assuming that older people are not computer literate it is most likely that television is their media choice. Once this data gets added to the census we suddenly think that the majority of the population prefers tv, when really the trend it quite heavily moving to internet TV.

Im not saying that we should disregard the media choices of the elderly, im just saying that the weighting of surveys needs to be looked at more objectively especially to the most active consumers of media.

 

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