Today marks my first entry in my media journal in which I
will describe the various media contacts that I've made in the past day.
The first form of media I tend to encounter on a regular day
would either be the newspaper or the internet. In today's case, it was the
newspaper (Arkansas Democrat Gazette/Northwest Arkansas Times, to be exact.) Like on most days, I read
the national and local news contained in the first few sections, as well as the
opinion section (though I read that at my own risk.) I'm admittedly not much of
a sports person, so I usually tend to disregard the sports section, unless
there’s a game I’m particularly interested in.
Later, I decided to log on and check my various social
networking accounts on popular sites Facebook and Tumblr, in which various media such as status updates, photos, videos,
news stories, and more are shared by people I'm friends with and/or subscribe
to. While online, I browsed the internet forum SomethingAwful.com, reading
discussion on various topics, and listened to my music library via iTunes. In
the evening, I caught a fragment of the NCAA playoff game between Ohio State
and IONA on TV while I was eating dinner, but did not continue to watch.
Now here I am again, come full circle from earlier today, on my computer and typing this blog. Although I didn’t even leave the house today, I still had multiple encounters with several different forms of media, which is a sign of increasing media pervasiveness in the lives of common people.
Now here I am again, come full circle from earlier today, on my computer and typing this blog. Although I didn’t even leave the house today, I still had multiple encounters with several different forms of media, which is a sign of increasing media pervasiveness in the lives of common people.
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