Assessment 1 - Personal Media use and Production Diary

Advanced media and technology have contributed greatly in daily life. Whether as entertainment or study, media transfers information from and to us. Seeing the importance of knowing media use pattern and analyse the reason of it, for fourteen days, I recorded my media use.

1.       Print media

a.       Books

·         The Joy Luck Club

·         Cooking books, for example: Desserts and a little bit of…Japan

b.      Magazine

·         Readers Digest (a new issue was delivered on 10^th of August 2011)

·         National Geographic (a new issue was delivered on 9^th of August 2011)

c.       Readings (Recommended and required readings)

·         Text books

·         Printed readings

2.       Cell phone

a.       Short Message Service (SMS) or texting

b.      Call

Mostly International Call was made to Indonesia when waiting for bus

3.       Laptop

Laptop is the most used media for entertainment, communication, studying and others. 80.69% of media use is allocated in laptop.

a.       Music

Includes audio and music video. On 14^th and 15^th of August 2011, I listened to 2PM’s Hands Up in loop while doing assignments.

b.      Video

Both online and offline video.

·         Korean dramas

Heartstrings and Scent of a Woman.

·         Korean variety shows

Running Man, Win Win, Happy Together and Family Outing.

·         Movies

Ip Man, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strangers Tide, Winnie the Pooh and Law Abiding Citizen.

·         Documentaries

Outfoxed and Wikileaks

c.       Social Networking Service (SNS)

They are only opened to check notifications, view and reply posts, post on walls and updating status.

·         Facebook

·         Twitter

d.      Blogging

·         Blogspot

·         Livejournal

e.      E-mail

I check e-mails almost every day to sort messages in inbox, view and reply e-mails and clean spam and trash.

f.        Chat

I chat to keep in contact with family and friends in Indonesia, when they are available I will chat to them.

·         Microsoft Network (MSN) Messenger

·         Yahoo Messenger

·         Skype

g.       Online News

To update myself with the latest world news and celebrity news, mostly I open:

·         Yahoo news, to check world news.

·         Allkpop, to check Korean celebrity news.

·         Good News from Indonesia, to check Indonesian news.

·         Brisbane Times, to check Australian news.

h.      University of Queensland (UQ)

All media used for my subjects, this includes:

·         Power Points

·         Lectopias

·         UQ websites (Si-net, Blackboard, MyUQ and MyMail+)

·         Online readings

·         Other documents (modules and worksheets)

i.         Other browsing

Other internet activities that does not fit in any of above categories.

·         Recipe websites (Tasty Kitchen and Sumo Kitchen)

·         Checking updates for Korean dramas and variety shows

·         Online comics

·         Forums

·         Downloading

In total, I used media for 8047 minutes in two weeks. On average, every day I used 9.58 hours on medias which makes up 39.92% of my day. To think that I rely on media heavily, I do not think that I can survive without the existing media and technology as who I am now is shaped by these media.

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