Media Diary Reflection

Looking back on my media use for Saturday I was surprised how little media I had listed. I did spend the entire morning driving around helping with frozen vehicles and transportation issues. This accounted for 4 hours listening to the car radio. The morning also included an hour spent writing an extemporaneous writing sample for my Internship Application. I spent Saturday afternoon at home with my parents working on homework and doing some baking. While doing homework I tend to be on an off Facebook with such frequency it makes it hard to record.  While at my parents’ house, print media is abundant. I can read the newspaper for the first time all week or flip through a magazine.  I spend more time interacting with family and pets while I am at home and less time on the computer making my media connections more traditional.  I did watched Downton Abbey on  Netflix with my family before falling asleep. 

Tuesday was more of a normal media day for me. I got online first thing and checked Facebook, email, and Skype. I have friends in Scotland and first thing in the morning is normally the best time to try to talk. I caught up with Glee and sent some texts before going to Fred Myers. Any time spent in the car is accompanied by the radio. At 2:00pm, I went to my only class of the day where I opened my laptop and had Facebook, Email, and Blackboard running in the background between taking notes. After class, I drove to my parents’ house listening to the radio in the car. When I got home NPR was playing on the radio so I listened to a show about Mitt Romney for about an hour. I got on my computer to work on the internship application, naturally Facebook and Email was open. The rest of the night continued in this fashion surfing the web and text messaging while getting some homework done. 

I had a hard time keeping up with the media diary especially marking down Facebook use and texting. It’s difficult to remember to record texting when you spend just a minute doing the activity and it’s mostly an all day event. Looking at my log, I could determine that I use more media during the week. This is because I am on my computer doing homework or trying to distract myself from homework. Using media is mostly a multitasking activity for me. I don’t sit down and just listen to the radio it’s on in the background.  I don’t interact much with printed media and stay mostly to digital but I do listen to a lot of radio.