Multi what? And your media diet.

    Your Media Diet

So how do you think about your media diet? 

Are you a media multi-tasker? 

Who does it? 

What does it do? 

Now let's try it. 

With Veggie Tales

Then what do we do with that information?

For Friday - Create an artifact that explains your media consumption and what you think it says about you. 

It needs to address the following questions: 

1. How much time do you spend with a particular media platform? 
(averages for the typical American listed at around 9 hours of screen time a day, for 13-74 year olds. FYI)  

2. Why do you choose that particular screen for the media content?  

3. What do you "get" out of that media? What kind of stimulation are you looking for? (This is the hard part.)

4. What don't you engage in? What kind of outlets do you avoid? 
(Don't read, or don't listen to commercial radio, or don't play video games for example.)

5. What kind of "high" culture would you like to engage in? Why don't you? 

6. Use one idea from the article provided in the Google Drive to talk about what you have learned about yourself and media culture. 

Spend 24 hours making note of every time I touched a "screen" even to talk or text (Almost always entertainment or distraction - if not make a note.) 

PS Texting with your mother COUNTS as distraction and entertainment unless there is an emergency in the family.

There is no judgment here just a hard look at yourself and what you do.

“communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed”         

(James W. Carey)