For a period of ten days, all students in JOUR1111 were required to log their personal media use and production. Prior to this, all students also completed a survey regarding our media use.
My personal media use and production over a ten day period is recorded in the following table and graph.
Table 1 – My Media Use and Production Over A Period of Ten Days.
Graph 1 – My Total and Average Daily Media Use and Production.
Impact
of State Election on My Media Use and Production
Graph 2 – My Television Use Over Ten Days.
The graph above shows that I don’t usually watch much television. Days eight, nine and ten can be considered anomalies for me, as my usage went up to 60 and 70 minutes, and then spiked to 180 minutes.
I noticed that my significant change in TV viewing was part of a wider pattern of altered media habits over days eight, nine and ten. A similar trend of increased media use can be seen in the amount of time I spent receiving and initiating phone calls (25, 45 and 60 minutes respectively) and reading news online, peaking on day ten to 90 minutes.
These trends can be attributed to my intense interest in the Queensland State Election (which occurred on day ten of my ten-day period). My interest peaked on Election Day night, when I was keeping up to date on the progress of seat allocations for the different political parties. This saw me watching the multiple channels of the televised coverage of the State Election in an attempt to follow the LNP’s crushing victory over the ALP. I was continuously checking online news reports in case there was information released online that hadn’t yet made to it broadcast television, and talking on the phone to friends and family to see if they had heard information that I had not on the political arrangements of my state.
My trend of increased use of television, online news and phone calls could be reflected in other journalism students, as many of us like to be informed on current issues. Whilst only 5% of my peers stated in their surveys that they watch 3-4 hours of television per day, I would speculate that many more than this would have watched this amount of television (or more) on Election Day, for similar reasons as I did, and would have increased their use of online news and phone calls also.
I believe my media use, particularly over the last three days studied, demonstrates my relationship to Journalism and Communication – when there are breaking events that I find interesting, relevant and important to myself and those around me, I like my media to be real-time, as television and online content is. This way, I know that the information I am receiving is as up-to-date as possible.
Blog Production – A New Form of Media Becoming Easier to Use
Like 63% of my cohort, I did not have a blog before I started JOUR1111. I noticed that my blog production decreased over the ten day period. I believe this trend occurred because I become more confident in my blogging abilities and became able to produce a quality blog post in a more timely fashion. As there is no survey information available for the amount of time my peers spend blogging, I am unable to compare the amount of time I spend blogging to the amount of time my peers spend blogging per day, however would envisage that if such data was recorded, a similar trend of decreasing time spent blogging by new bloggers would be seen. Such results would confirm a general trend in media use and production of media users becoming more adept over time at using new sources of media.
Graph 3 – Blog Production Over a Ten Day Period
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