Profile of a Consumer

	Hours/Week	Most Time to Least Time	Favorite to Least Favorite	Attraction
Television	6-8 hours/week	3	5	America’s Next Top Model, The X Factor, The Voice, America’s Best Dance Crew, Friends, The Office, etc. I mostly watch reality shows and comedies to relax, I suppose.
Video	1-2 hours/week	7	7	One Direction videos…
Movies	4-6 hours/week	4	4	They’re a good way to relax after a lot of homework, or they’re a solid entertainment option for hanging out with friends.
Radio	0-2 hours/week	9	9	Entertainment when I’m driving.
CD’s	2-4 hours/week	6	6	Entertainment when I’m driving.
Newspapers	0 hours/week	10	10	I’ll skim the paper at breakfast, but I mostly just look at pictures.
Magazines	0-1 hour/week	8	8	Looking at what celebrities are wearing to events is my guilty pleasure.
Comics	0 hour/week	12	12	I don’t read comics- but if I did, it would be Batman. He is my attraction.
Books	2-4 hours/week	5	3	I love reading books, because it’s easier to find true-story novels than on any other media, and biographies are my favorite.
IPhone	12-14 hours/week	1	1	My iPhone has Facebook, Instagram, twitter, GPS, texting, Google, the Dictionary… Why wouldn’t I be attracted to it?
Laptop	12-14 hours/week	2	2	I use the internet to find recipes for when I cook, I blog on it, and I watch movies/television on it. It attracts me for many reasons.
Video Games	0 hours/week	11	11	I am not attracted to video games in the least. I don’t even have games on my iPhone.

 

I find that I use multiple medias each for information and my personal entertainment- but definitely more for entertainment purposes. The internet, for example, I use to research information for school, to blog for school, and to watch YouTube videos for school. However, most often, I use the internet to skim Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest- although, in all fairness, I use Pinterest to find recipes and DIY crafts, so that’s really a combination of information and entertainment. I find that, for the sites I use, anyways, information is very accurate and helpful in my everyday life.  As long as you steer clear of sites like Answers.com or any other site that allows viewers to post information (besides, of course, Pinterest), the information should be legitimate and useful.

In With the New...

Our modern day media is in with the new, and out with the old. It is now socially unacceptable to lack electronic devices such as an iPod, cell phone (preferably smart), and a computer- for teenagers, anyways. Until now, however, I have managed to live without a computer. Granted, I've had an iPhone for the last two years, so it's never been terribly necessary before. But now, things are changing. Just to hand in assignment students need internet access and a printer. I had to prepare an argument to convince my parents that it is, in fact, necessary for me to have a computer for school. So laptop shopping we went, because laptops are just easier, and now here I am, typing on this new little contraption, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Now I'm one of those "in with the new" people following up on the latest trends. I have a laptop (shared with my father) AND an iPhone at my beck and call. I have access to Google, Facebook, Youtube, Wikipedia, etc. I don't even have to think anymore. My computing skills are no longer needed as I have two computing devices much more capable than I am. How will this change my life? How has this already changed the lives of many? Am I interested in becoming one of those people? Am I already one of those people? I suppose I am. I am in with the new, and I'm out with the old.

One Down, Four to Go

A computer lab full of brand new computers ready to take us into the new electronic age of schooling- yet we leave it nearly empty as only four students inhabit these seats. Four students are taking the Media Studies class. There were five, but one dropped it this morning. She couldn't handle the heat of blogging. I know it sounds almost sad now, but this is a good thing. No, this is a great thing. I'm thrilled. No waiting for slow students to finish assignments and no trying to catch up to fast students three assignments ahead- this is a dream. An interesting subject, a laid back teacher, a small class. I am waiting to find someting worth complaining about.
Bring on the media. Fill me up with advertisements and cheesy marketing. Four of us, we sit. We wait. We enjoy.