The Importance Of Media Consumption On Social Media

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By concentrating on my media consumption in the past few weeks I have learned that my media consumption is mainly focused around social media. According to my media log the two social media sights that come up most in my media log are Facebook and YouTube. Other media consumption I have been exposed to is online news articles, children television programmes that I watch with my toddler. I work part time in a supermarket and this is where I’m mostly exposed to advertisements as I hardly have time to watch TV shows or reality shows.
Reading through the post on discussion board I realise that there are a lot of my peers to some degree use social sites, watch reality television and everyone uses media to research for their university work. The patterns of media consumption with in our group are that many use social media ,a lot of us don’t watch television or news , most view only reality TV and get latest news on social sites and hardly anyone listens to radio. Throughout these five weeks of this unit I could see in other students’ posts that social media is widely used and it differs from Television and newspapers in a way where it gives public an option to comment on issues and not only hear and read about it but join groups and have discussions, this is what makes it more interesting.
(Aneesh Johnson-Singh, March 2014)Week 3 Media analysis: audiences and representations- Activity 2: Media consumption log – Group discussion board (last viewed 4, April, 2014)
(Meaghan Kiely, April, 2014) Week 3 Media analysis: audiences and representations- Activity 2: Media consumption log – Group Discussion Board (last viewed 4, April,2014)

Media theory that is greatly influenced by these media sights is Hegemony. Hegemony is how the most do...

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... best cosmetics, and most desired items of technology. The powerful use this sights to advertise their products and this is how everything comes together.

To change media influences we need to change our media consumption .Personally I didn’t realise how exposed I was to media until I had to keep a log of it. Considering that my media consumption is mainly connected to Facebook and YouTube I feel that this makes me in a way oblivious to the world around me. I think this because of I am only exposed to news through what is posted and shared on social networking sites. This is something that I should change about my media consumption. Through the posts on discussion board there is a common view of media which is that most of the media we are exposed to is simply pointless information and according to many its better if we try to avoid it rather than consume it .

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