Media Journal
Twitter
|
Online News
|
Television
|
Newspaper
|
Blogs
|
Radio
|
|
Saturday
|
20
|
30
|
0
|
0
|
15
|
0
|
Sunday
|
10
|
20
|
0
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
Monday
|
20
|
10
|
70
|
10
|
30
|
0
|
Tuesday
|
10
|
20
|
90
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Wednesday
|
5
|
10
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
Thursday
|
5
|
10
|
30
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
Friday
|
0
|
0
|
30
|
0
|
0
|
60
|
Saturday
|
5
|
15
|
0
|
5
|
0
|
0
|
Sunday
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Monday
|
0
|
0
|
30
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Data has been recorded in minutes, and rounded up.
As shown by the graph above, while ‘new media’ is becoming
increasingly popular, my media usage is mainly ‘traditional’ media i.e. radio,
TV and newspapers.
However, when broken down into specific media, TV and online
news sources are my obvious favourites.
TV
I come from a home that doesn’t watch much more than 3 hours of TV a week, and never watches TV news.
I have only recently moved to Brisbane, and the house I am living in has Foxtel, and a big TV, so I have found that I watch much more TV than I used to, which averaged out to about half an hour a day. This is still much less than the average time my peers spent, which was around one to two hours.
Most of TV I watched was sitcom, but after a few days of media blogging, I realised I wasn’t using as broad a variety of media sources as I would have liked, so I began to watch the news, mainly breakfast shows on channel 9 and 7, in the morning before catching the bus to uni.
Online News
My online news comes pretty much purely from abc.net.au/news. I have this webpage set as my home page, so every time I open my web browser, I spend ten minutes scanning the breaking news, or visiting the sports page.
I had a go at trying online newspapers, but most of them are pay walled. I also thought they tended to have too many ‘fluff’ pieces, which I’m not interested in at all.
A curious point to mention is that I don’t have Facebook,
which puts me in with the other 11 journalism students who don’t. Despite this,
I think it is actually an advantage, seeing as 92% of students said they spent
most of their time on the Internet using facebook. I think spending my time
reading news is much more productive.
Radio
When I worked full time, before beginning university, I listened to triple j for literally about 7 hours a day. I have found, though, that I haven’t even touched a radio in a long time. The only reason I listened to an hour of radio on Friday was because Bon Iver was doing a segment called Like A Version on triple j, and he is my favourite musician.
The reason I don’t listen to radio is predominantly because I don’t have radio
on my iPhone, and I can’t work out how to get my clock radio working properly.
This response is similar to that of my cohort, who, on average, listen to less than an hour of radio a day.
This response is similar to that of my cohort, who, on average, listen to less than an hour of radio a day.
Blogs
I have had a wordpress blog for about a year before I began
JOUR1111, so I was quite comfortable using, writing for, and reading blogs. I
quite enjoy reading some of my cohorts blogs, it’s great to reading something
creative, or find out something new, or check out a link to something cool or
different.
Most students didn’t have a blog before beginning this course (63%), but around 30% of students said they spent most of their time using the Internet reading blogs. I thought this was quite a curious fact.
Most students didn’t have a blog before beginning this course (63%), but around 30% of students said they spent most of their time using the Internet reading blogs. I thought this was quite a curious fact.
Now here is something I’m not sure about yet. Before I got a
twitter account, I thought it was full of interesting people, always saying
interesting things. Now that I have a twitter account, I admire journalists so
much more for finding the gems, the news worthy stories, in amongst the utter
rubbish and boring promotions that most tweets tend to be.
I check my twitter feed quite often, roughly two times a day, which isn’t really necessary, but I like to keep in practise for the day when I might need to be checking my twitter feed regularly. At least, that’s what I tell myself. I’m not addicted.
I check my twitter feed quite often, roughly two times a day, which isn’t really necessary, but I like to keep in practise for the day when I might need to be checking my twitter feed regularly. At least, that’s what I tell myself. I’m not addicted.
Newspapers
I used to read newspapers a lot, mainly The Australian, and
occasionally The Age, but since moving to the city and living by myself, I never
by the newspaper. The only times I’ve had the opportunity to read the paper is
the free tabloid when it’s left on a seat on the bus.
However, I appear to be in the minority here, as 51% of journalism students who took the survey said they got their news from newspapers.
Maybe they all still live with their parents, and their parents buy the paper. Or maybe I need to make a greater effort.
However, I appear to be in the minority here, as 51% of journalism students who took the survey said they got their news from newspapers.
Maybe they all still live with their parents, and their parents buy the paper. Or maybe I need to make a greater effort.
From the journal I logged I can see that I use a wide
variety of media sources, from TV news to Twitter and blogs. From analysing the
survey, I’ve found that I am quite news aware, but I don’t read the newspaper
and I don’t have a Facebook account, something most of other journalism
students have.
All in all, I think I’m happy with how much media I’m consuming, but I think I’ll start reading the Weekend Australian.
All in all, I think I’m happy with how much media I’m consuming, but I think I’ll start reading the Weekend Australian.
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