Today marks the fourth day of analysing my media consumption.

So this morning I woke up late and eased into my day with a shower and a nice cup of coffee. I scrolled through my Instagram, Facebook newsfeed to see what my friends had posted and the other accounts I follow. I liked the pictures I found appealing. I also did my Snapchat streaks 😛

Then the morning turned into a disaster. I was listening to my playlist on Soundcloud when I saw the bus approaching and made a run for it. When I got onto the bus I realised my music had stopped playing, I checked and my earphones had unplugged from my phone. Then it got worse, I couldn’t find my phone. I got off the bus, realising it must of dropped when I was running for the bus. So I ran all the way back to where I got on the bus and there my phone was (THANK GOD!!!!). I got on the bus again and went on Messenger to let my boyfriend who I was going to visit that I was on my way  and what had just happened. However this made me miss my stop. I got off the bus annoyed at my distracted self and ran all the way to his house, with my Soundcloud music blaring in my ear.

When I got to his house we watched a movie together on Youtube. Then we decided we were in the mood to bake. So we went on google and searched a healthy chocolate chip, peanut butter oat cookies recipe. Successfully we followed the recipe and our cookies were amazing. However there was a lot left over to clean. So he played some music off apple music for us as we cleaned.

When I got home I watched some TVD clips off Youtube and then checked my student emails. Then obviously I went on my blog and started writing this blog post 🙂

So that was all the media I had consumed for today. As you can see I used media in many different ways:

• to communicate with my friends
• to escape boredom through entertainment
• to keep up to date with friends and the rest of the world
• to do my university work
• to create things I didn’t know how to create

Using medians such as:

• Soundcloud
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Messenger
• Youtube
• Gmail (student email)
• websites (google search, my blog)

Authored:

• blog post (public)
• messaging (private)
• snapchat streaks (private)

Curating:

• Soundcloud playlist (public)
• Apple music playlist (public)

Contributing/ Distributing:

• Scrolling through Facebook and instagram newsfeed (private and public as friends posts can be private but other accounts could be public posts that everyone can see)

Consuming:

• Soundcloud songs (public)
• Apple music songs (public)
• student emails (private)
• website searching (public)
• youtube watching (public)
• looking at posts on insta and Facebook (private and/or public)