My media Input

My personal network consists of friends who I meet with in person or chat with on Facebook or through texting, class acquaintances who I organize projects with through email of texting, and professors and other higher ups who I email or meet formally.

On a daily basis my media in put consists of social interactions with people through face to face in my dorm and at class, through Facebook, email, phone calls, and text messaging. The face-to-face interactions happen consistently throughout the day where I mainly focus my attention on my close friends that live close to me. I give these people most of my attention through working on homework together, playing games, talking, or watching television. Also, every day my friends and I make a point of all going to dinner together so that we all have a relaxing time to see each other. The relaxing component is especially important because we are all engineers. My other social interactions with people happen through my computer or phone where I converse with people, post status updates and look at other peoples’ posting and using email to formally answer professors and other students. On a daily basis my media input is taken up by a variety of videos, photos and articles comes from fun sites such as “I waste so much time”, “YouTube”, or “IGN” and serious news from BBC or yahoo news. Most of this browsing is only done when I have a few minutes to kill or don’t have any work due (very rarely). I will also watch a movie of episode from a TV show on almost a daily basis. The television I watch and the games I play are for stress relief and because I get to hang out with my friends while I watch or play. My media output on a typical day would mostly consist of status updates, but also posting pictures or videos that I’ve taken or found. Posting writing that I’ve composed either for a class or for fun.

            My focus throughout the day goes primarily to schoolwork and friends. However, almost every day I check my usual media sites and look at Facebook. When I am by myself, not online or working on schoolwork then I focus my time on writing and reading for pleasure and designing and coding video games. My focus during the school year is much different then what my focus is when I am alone, but school is helping me towards a life where my focus is on the things that I want to do rather than what I have to do.

Media input/output on Friday Oct 5:
Input
-music while walking to class
-posters on walls in room and hallways
-various photos and videos on Facebook
-photos on friends laptop
-video at astonaut presentation
-music in writing class
-comedian special on netflix
-south park on netflix
-you tube videos
-read two stories before writing class
Output
-Story I wrote