Web207 Media Diary Part 1 – 9th December 2011
Friday 9th December Media Diary
5:30am iPhone alarm goes off with Kings of Leon ring tone. There are no other alerts or messages on my phone
5:45am turn on PC and check emails and my twitter timeline. Emails include a newsletter from one of my favourite online stores. Spend a 5 minutes looking at their sales, while glancing at my twitter timeline. I @reply a couple of the people I follow. Open up browser and flick through a few sites catching up on the latest news.
6:40am Head to work by car. Radio is on and listening to triple m’s breakfast show. There are a number of ads for new cars and insurance. There aren’t many billboards on my route however those that I notice are for mobile phones or mobile carriers. I notice a lot of store and business signs.
7:10am Arrive at work. Turn on computer and read emails and check calendar for the day. Write and read emails for 30 mins before heading out to the Refinery. The radio is on in the car and there are more ads for insurance.
8:00am Spend the next 2 hours in a one-on-one training session based on corporate web applications with the entire time using the intranet.
10:00am Return to office by car with the radio playing again. This time there is music playing for the 15 minute trip
10:15am Arrive back at work and check and write emails. Check cricket scores online. Google search to find solution for a couple of co-workers with outlook and excel problems.
Check private emails and tweets on iphone at various times during day.
2:45pm Head for home and put the cricket on the radio. Switch between that and commercial radio. Check stocks on iphone while at lights.
3:30pm Arrive home. Turn on PC. Check emails. One email tells me I have some Facebook notifications. Most of the others are newsletters. Open twitter to see timeline and Facebook to check my friend’s statuses. Write a few tweets and @reply to a few friends. Download latest episode of Bones and Grimm via Torrent.
6:00pm TweetDeck is on for the rest of the evening although I am only glancing at it most of the time. Watch an episode of Merlin on the PC that I downloaded about a month ago but haven’t watched yet.
8:00pm Transfer episode of Bones to digital media player and watch on TV
9:00pm play Skyrim on PC while glancing at Twitter timeline on Tweetdeck on the other monitor.
11:30pm Read book on iPad for 30min before going to sleep.
Summary
About 90 minutes listening to the radio in the car and seeing various billboards and shop signs, around 1 hour reading and responding to email, about 4 hours glancing at Twitter via TweetDeck, about 30min on the iphone checking emails, messages and stocks, around 30min reading a book on the ipad, around 3hours on the internet/intranet, about 90 minutes watching downloaded TV shows and around 2 hours playing PC games. The total comes to 12 hours engaging with some kind of media with most of it digital (apart from the times spent in the car listening to an analogue radio show and seeing physical advertising media).
