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Ext Dip media students doing data analyses on their uses of media...
Self-Research Regarding Media Usage
As you can see by looking at the above chart, though surprisingly the majority of my cohorts are spending around just one hour in a day watching TV and using internet and social media apps, the combined watch time for the entire class is more than 24 hours - not including sleep time, this would mean they would have to be spending every waking hour using the internet.
But surely this can’t be right? The health risks alone of this kind of lifestyle.
To find out more, I travelled across the room to ask my colleague Michael his opinion on the situation.
“I think it’s pretty vile”, he said to me in a statement, “I think people shouldn’t be on as much.”
I concur with his statements wholeheartedly.
Looking at trends on the chart I noticed that a lot of people were listening to radio - curious, considering this is the age of streaming, podcasts, iPlayer and all sorts of other things that aren’t radio. You’d be forgiven for calling radio the unsung medium, except you wouldn’t and would probably be stoned to death with transistor radios by radio fans for doing so. While this “old media” usage was initially surprising it does glean an interesting insight into the current generation and its views on technology. The last 150 years have proven that better technology does not necessarily mean better lifestyle.
Looking at my own personal timestamps, my own time is mostly spent 3+ hours each on the internet, Facebook and YouTube, with some more minor time (between 5 and 30 minutes each) spent on Twitter, Instagram, gaming, and the radio.
Comparing this with Michael’s time, what do we find? He also spent a lot of time on social media and less time (or none at all) at the cinema. I think this is quite an interesting and significant point. Maybe we’ve come to a point where we don’t need to go to the cinema anymore. We’ve reinvented home cinema. The sofa cinema.
As for the final question, “does online habits affect offline behaviour?”, i believe that absolutely yes it does, and my own behaviour is a prime example of this, when I’ve previously behaved quite moody when faced with online drama and so forth.
Please write-up (in your own words) the information discussed relating to the media usage (weekday) we collated last week.
Suggest possible reasons for the final question posed.
Don’t forget to hash the tag post and give it a title. ‘Self-Research Regarding Media Usage.’
Emma