Today marks the sixth day of analysing my media consumption.
I didn’t use much media today AGAIN so unfortunately don’t have much to talk about again!!! I woke up early again (sigh with rolled eyes) and listened to my playlist on Soundcloud as I got ready for mass and of course sent my snapchat streaks (same old, same old). After mass I went straight to work. I worked until 2pm.
When I got home from work I made myself a smoothie for lunch as I listened to my Soundcloud tunes on my speaker. Then as I drank my smoothie I watched some VOGUE Youtube videos and scrolled through Instagram and Facebook. I then made a care package for my boyfriend as he’s now very sick after last night 
I made a box full of his favourite foods, my favourite book I’ve been wanting him to read (Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier) and wrote him a list of things we are going to do together when he gets better (does this count as media?)I then walked to his house to deliver the package and I stayed for a bit and we watched a movie on Youtube together.
Then I went home and made dinner with the fam. Looking up a new salad idea on Pinterest. We cooked together while listening to Apple music. Then after dinner I read a magazine (SHOP), then I went on my laptop and typed up this blog post on my blog!
So that was all the media I had consumed for today. As you can see I used media in many different ways:
- to escape boredom through entertainment
- to please others
- to see whats happening with my friends and the rest of the world
- to find new things
- to do my university work
Using medians such as:
- Snapchat
- Soundcloud
- Apple music
- Youtube
- BOOK
- written letter
- wesbite (my blog)
- Magazine
Authored:
- Blog post (public)
- snapchat streaks (private)
Curating:
- Soundcloud (playlist)
Consuming:
- Watching Youtube videos (public)
- scrolling through Facebook and instagram newsfeed (public and/or private)
- pintrest recipe ideas searching (public)
- listening to soundcloud songs (public)
- listening to apple music songs (public)
- writing a letter (private)
- book reading (public)
- reading a magazine (public)
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
Hey Nakita! Great work on getting to day six and still being very original in your post.
I particularly like the way you have categorised your media use into platforms, motives and the publics it was meant for. I think it’s quite helpful to think of media use in this way as it allows us to see not only how, but why and for what reason we are doing what we do online.
Your blog post is quite different from mine, as instead of listing everything I did in a day I focused in on the one or two aspects of my media use because my brain simply couldn’t process the hows and whys of every intricate detail. Although I really like how you have done this, and if I were to redo my blogposts, I think I would incorporate something similar.
Sarah