I woke up yesterday morning – since recently I consider 2:30 pm to still be morning – with the intention of keeping track of my exposure to media. I would have to say that my exposure has decreased since coming to Guelph, but I do still come in contact with a number of forms of media. I live on campus and I am on a 3-year cell phone contract with Bell. This basically means that my phone is no longer of much use to me while in or around buildings on campus. Texting has become a rarity in my life and I struggle to get signal anywhere.
Anyway, the day started with me waking up and turning to my computer (I had been watching a movie on it the previous night, so it was right by my bed). I immediately signed on to msn and had an email on Hotmail from my girlfriend. I then proceeded to check my facebook. I noticed a banner ad, representing a web cam chat site. The girl in the ad looked thrilled to be chatting with strangers, but hey, that’s not for me. After wasting a little bit of time on my computer, a floor mate and I decided it was about time to get some food. We went to the Prairie cafeteria and were surrounded by televisions. On the big-screen someone had turned on Judge Mathis. I was pleased. I always got a good chuckle from TV court cases. I didn’t really get up to much, but one form of media that I was exposed to later on that day was my Nintendo Wii system. My floor buddies and I often waste hours in front of my TV playing video games. It was the same story for most of the evening. I noticed a number of school related posters and flyers posted all over south residence, but this is more or less inevitable. To wind down for the night I watched another movie on my laptop in bed. That about brings me to where I am now. Most of the media I am exposed to in residence is similar each day, but when I’m actually keeping track I notice how much we participate in media economies and ingest so many different forms of media in 24 hours alone.
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