11:00am - I wake up, turn off my alarm clock, and then turn on my computer. While waiting for the computer to start up I turn on the TV and watched "How Its Made" on the discovery channel and briefly saw how they make recycled plastic.
My computer loads and I go through my daily routine (in order)...
- I browse through news articles related to the NBA. I am on this site almost every day, I crave the gossip and news of the NBA. The interactive capabilities, easy viewing stats presentation, and a large choice of daily articles about the NBA and related basketball news keeps me constantly satisfied and entertained...CHECK
Hotmail - read emails (mostly consisting of dirty humour that my uncle forwards to me and his friends), then I delete junk (consisting mostly of male enhancement advertisements) ...CHECK
Blackboard...check to see if there's any new announcements or grades...CHECK
UoG mail...read emails...CHECK
2:30pm - After I get back from class I listen to music while I get started on my homework. I think it is fair to consider music a very obvious form of media. The type of music being played, the lyrics that stand out, the images I get from the music and the appearance of the artists that are portrayed in my head that are playing all influence me in different ways. They can influence my mood, influence my opinions, influence my train of thought, and possibly subliminally affect me in various ways. This could have an influence on what I believe in or even what I wear.
4:30pm - My reading starts in the bathroom. My gospel, SLAM, a basketball magazine puts in a Zen state to do my business. It is a supplement to NBA.com. More opinionated, more in depth and more creative writing and also more advertisements. Unlike web pages where my attention seems to focus on the written articles, full page advertisements force my attentions as I flip the page. There are no pop-up blockers in this damn magazine. Ads consist of companies trying to sell you products that either make you a better basketball player or make you more popular socially. Advertisements that attract my attention are ones that contain a combine basketball with a motivational or comical quote or image. Could this be a source of attraction for products and brands that I purchase?
10:00pm - I read Understanding Comics before I go to bed.
As I reflect on my daily expose to media I notice that my media life large centers around my computer, here when I have free time I choose to entertain myself with information and videos that humour me and inform me with daily information that matters enough to me that I will spend almost 1/4 of my day wasting on. I feel like music has a large influence on the social portrayal of me. Reading and learning (in books or on the web) is a daily phenomenon that directs my education in a particular direction for a course. In my Ecology course we are directed to research about commercial fish farming. I feel like this class is directing my attention in a broader aspect, it has to since media because effect us in so many ways. Although I feel like I don't pay attention to advertisements much, I realize that the media I do participate in still has a similar influence on my social and self appearance.
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