Today marks the first day of analysing my media consumption.
I used the technological tool ‘GOOGLE’ which was the main content I consumed today. Soooo it all started with looking for a pair of shoes. My mum has tirelessly informed me that I need to invest in a new pair of adidas superstars, reasoning that mine are looking ‘too used’ and ‘worn out’ (classic mum banter). However when mum bought a pair that were black and white (the standard) I rebutted how I didn’t want to own a pair that everyone else wanted. You got adidas superstars to be individual, as with each new season a new release of a limited pair of sneakers. So I jumped online and thoroughly searched the web for my shoes. Based off prior knowledge I knew which stores carried this style of shoes. So I looked into various sites such as platypus , adidas and hype etc. Through these websites I used the search system to look up ‘sneakers’ and later filtered my search to ‘adidas’ in order to quickly find the range of adidas superstar shoes I was after.
Everyday I walk in to the city and everywhere I go between university classes, involves me listening to music off my phone. Generally I listen on Soundcloud. On this medium I am able to listen to the songs I have saved into a playlist. Or I find new songs from favourite artists that I can then like and put into my playlist or create a new playlist.
Today I also met with my friend and had to use Facebook Messenger in order to communicate with her, so that way we could find each other easily. I used it to communicate with her regularly so that way I could track her journey as she comes to meet me and it also provided a place to inform each other where to meet and when. I was also showing her around my university and had to look up the RMIT map (through the search engine on RMIT website) so that way I could take her to all the buildings I wanted to show her and the ones we wanted to explore together.
In the morning before University I scrolled through my newsfeed on Facebook and Instagram. I found memes on Facebook which I commented my friends in and checked notifications where I could see what I had been tagged in, what events I had coming up etc. On Instagram I looked through the photos my friends had posted and checked the Insta I had uploaded (photo taken on my phone) a few nights ago to see the likes I had accumulated. I also went on snapchat and sent my daily snap in order to save my streaks and to open and reply to snapchats my friends had sent me.
During University, I uploaded a media 1 blog post about my reading online. I also used the internet to go on the media factory website to access my readings for the week. I also checked my university emails to make sure I was in the loop with the course work and to see any exciting RMIT news.
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 my friends and the rest of the world
- to do my university work
- to find things
Using mediums such as:
- SoundCloud
- Messenger
- Snapchat
- Google (platypus site, adidas site, hype site, RMIT site, media factory site, my blog site)
Authored:
- blog post (public)
- messaging (private)
- snapchat messages and streaks (private)
Curating:
- Soundcloud 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)
- Replying to facebook notifications (public)
Consuming:
- online shopping (public)
- RMIT website searching (public)
- Soundcloud songs (public)
- Viewing posts on Facebook and Instagram
- Readings on Media factory site for university course work
- Reading through RMIT student emails
I consumed and produced media today. I was both passive and active towards the media consumed. I contributed, authored, curated, distributed, publishing and consumed. Media consumption can also fall under public and private categories.
Nakita xx