Media consumption....

For the course of exactly 13 hours I monitored the media I took in from 7:00am to 8:00pm. Initially I thought it to be nearly impossible due to the overwhelming amount of mass media that surrounds me everyday, yet somehow I managed to keep a record of these.


7am to 8:30am 
Twitter. Through twitter I was linked to the ACTA Bill and the ACTA petition website.
Tumblr: images and information about the ACTA Bill and its effects.

8:30am to 12pm
iPod Music (on the way to school)
Youtube.com- Matrix clip where persons analysed the movie in terms of post modernism
                     - Clip of the Matrix movie
                     - US Campaign of the Gulf War: Use of technology in air warfare
12pm to 5pm
Music on iPod once again
Facebook.com-Various comedic images
Twitter.com
The Huffington Post- "Elinor Sauerwein, 96-Year-Old Millionaire, Lived Poor And Quietly Donated $1.7   Million"
RT.com- A news story on how the US arrested someone over threatening twitter posts
Tumblr.com- religious posts.
                   - Image and story of a Thai male who married his dead female lover.

5pm to 7pm
iPod music again
Radio playing music 
Billboard advertisement


Throughout this entire exercise, what was observed was the lack of local media consumed within the twelve hour period. All of the media mentioned within this post originates mainly from the United States, this is especially so with the news stories.

In terms of the news stories consumed especially the one which reported on the person that got arrested due to twitter messages which threatened the United States Government, one could view this as a way of RT.com displaying to its readers the control that the United States government has over internet services and it also shows the fact that the government may in fact be monitoring and tracking things that are posted on popular social websites. Therefore it helps to reinstate some sort of control over the internet and what persons may post about.

The experience itself was quite interesting, especially since I found myself hyper sensitized to the world around me. It therefore goes to show that it is almost impossible to go any amount of time without consuming anything mass media related and honestly if I were to try I think I'd go mad.