Today marks the third day of analysing my media consumption.

I started my day with my usual morning walk to UNI with my boyfriend. We always carry my speaker with us that way we can both listen to music as we walk without the annoying drag of sharing headphones. We listened to music off Soundcloud. Listening to my ‘rap’ playlist and liking songs from artists we like such as Xavier Wulf and Bones, adding some of their tracks into this playlist. We were running late however to class so we had to tram half of the way. We checked tram tracker on my phone to see what time the 109 was coming.

When I got to UNI I sent my snap chat streaks and then did some blogging on my blog before class started. I also watched a TVD video on  Youtube as I’m a huge TVD fan. In my media 1 class, I went on my laptop to check my student emails, updated my blog and then checked my google drive to see if I submitted my assessment correctly.

We got let out of class early and I made my way towards Melbourne Central. I messaged my friend on Messenger because we were meeting there to go shopping. I communicated on this app with her to see if she was close by etc. After we met I decided to finally buy the adidas I had been searching for. So I checked different websites such as Platypus, Hype, Adidas to see which store had the shoes I wanted cheapest.

Afterwards when I got home, I started getting ready for the SSS Melbourne UNI Foam Party. I checked Facebook to see what time the event was and where. Then after the party, me and my boyfriend used the UBER app to uber home.

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 friends
• to escape boredom through entertainment
• to do my university work
• to get to places
• to find things

Using medians such as:

• Sound cloud
• Snapchat
• UBER app
• tram tracker app
• Facebook
• Messenger
• websites (platypus, hype, adidas, my blog)
• Gmail (student email)
• Google drive

Authored:

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

Curating:

• Soundcloud playlist (public)

Consuming:

• Facebook checking events (public)
• checking google drive (public)
• website usage (public)
• tramtracker app (public)
• über app (private)
•  checking emails (private)

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