My Media Consumption Log of 24hours 9/26 to 9/27

Observation #1

Location: Home
Time: 6:00 am
Duration: 1mn
Type of Media: cellphone alarm
Activity: Jump out of my bed
Notes: It amazing how my cellphone alarm wakes me up!! I set it so that it rings multiples times from 5am to 6am. In high school I use to be able to wake up exacly at 6am without an alarm but since I started using my cell phone alarm, I feel like my brain is waiting every morning for my cellphone to ring. I guest we create our own dependency on of technology.


Observation #2

Location: Bedroom
Time: 6:30 am
Duration: 20mn
Type of Media: TV
Activity: watching news on Fox
Notes: Like every weekday morning I watch 20mn of a 4mns news repeated over and over again. I have never noticed that it is the same news maybe even the same words I am hearing every morning for about 20 mn. Instead of me being glue to the TV for 20mn, I could get the same information in 4mn and than do something else. MaybeI will go jogging next time...umh?

Observation #3

Location: Train Station
Time: 8:00 am
Duration: 10mn
Type of Media: Subway Ads
Activity: Observing and reading
Notes: While waiting for the train I was facing subway ads: One ad is showing a picture of the 2006 Mercedes which not only reminded that I don't drive one but also made me laugh about the fact that a year ago I wanted the 2005 Mercedes and now I have moved on to the 2006. It is amazing how human being today don't look at what they have but spend much of their time looking at what they don't have. I wonder if I am like that too?


Observation #4

Location: School Library
Time: 12 PM
Duration: 1 hour
Type of Media: Internet
Activity: check my emails and did research
Notes: I like checking my email a lot, it's like checking your mail box without the bills in it.


Observation # 5

Location: Train
Time: 2:15 pm
Duration: 8 mn
Type of Media: Subway Ads
Activity: day dreaming
Notes: "Boston Singles" say what? I was little bit taken back when I saw this particular ad, not only was I single but I am now a single living in Boston. I even forgot I was single till I saw this ad, I felt like maybe I do need to go out more to look for my dream man...if there is one.

Observation #6

Location: Bedroom
Time: 7:00 pm
Duration: 3 hours
Type of Media: TV
Activity: watching tv while laying on my Bed
Notes: Anyone who has a TV in their bedroom will tell you that it is a bad idea. I knew it from the get go but I couldn't help it. Every evening I spend about 3hours watching TV. I have even gone trough the trouble of getting Tivo to record my favorite shows such as 7th Heaven, One thru hill, Eve, girlfriends, Extra and access holywood as if my life depanded on it...it's depressing but my hapiness do depends on it.

Observation #7

Location:Bedroom

Time:11:00 pm
Duration: 1 hour
Type of Media: Music
Ativity: listening to radio 106.7
Notes: Every night I go to sleep listening to the best romantique songs ever created and I think music has the power of affecting human emotions.

Who owns the Media

Surprise, surprise!!!
Currently there are five major corporate owners in international mass communication. These giants are News Corp., Disney/Cap Cities, Time Warner, Viacom, and TCI. In addition, two other "mini-giants," General Electric and Westinghouse have global ambitions. Of these seven firms, all but Viacom and TCI have major news components. News Corp. is the owner of or significant partner in newspapers, television stations, and satellite broadcasting systems around the world. Disney/Cap Cities owns ABC. Time Warner's recent acquisition of Turner Broadcasting, which created and owns CNN, gives it a major international presence in newsgathering and informing. General Electric owns NBC and Westinghouse own CBS. All of these mega-corporations are based in the United States. The growth of global mass media firms has been caused by a move toward privatization of mass media organizations. This is most clearly evident in the broadcasting sector, in which many countries of the world had been maintained as less powerful and less existent in the US news, as the forces of capitalism and entrepreneurship have emerged as the dominant model of economic organization in the world. This development has allowed the global media giants to enter into partnerships with dozens of national mass media firms around the world. US democracy is in trouble: At first thought, one might ask, what is wrong with a few companies becoming so big? Isn't that how business works? Focusing on democracy-enhancing principles and the institutions needed for it such as the media and journalism, the concern that arises is that there are very few media owners in the mainstream that reach out to the masses. As a result, there is the risk of reduced diversity of issues and perspectives and of political influence and interests from a few affecting the many.Most Americans get their views and understandings of the world around them from the mainstream media. It is therefore critical to understand some underlying issues such as conflict of interest, endless cutbacks, endless personal agenda, class bias and that at the end of the day public interest doesn't stand a chance and the is just someone’s opinion.
INFO
* Viacom - 2002 revenues $24.6 billion. Owns 39 broadcast television stations and 185 radio stations. Cable networks include MTV, Nickelodeon and BET. Other businesses include CBS, UPN, Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster and an 80.4 percent equity interest in Blockbuster Video.
* News Corporation - 2002 total revenues $17 billion. Owns (80.6 percent) the Fox Entertainment Group, which includes 20th Century Fox, Fox Television Stations, and Fox Cable (includes sports and movie channels, National Geographic Channel). Fox Television owns 60 television stations and has 188 affiliates. News Corporation is the world's largest publisher of English-language newspapers, including the New York Post. Also owns HarperCollins Publishers.
* AOL Time Warner - 2002 revenues $40.9 billion. Businesses owned include America Online, CNN, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Networks (includes TBS Super station) and HBO. The Warner Music Group's major record labels include Elektra and Atlantic. The publishing business conducted primarily through Time Inc. includes Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice are conducting investigations into accounting and disclosure practices of the company.
* General Electric - 2002 revenues $31.7 billion. NBC provides network television services to more than 220 affiliated stations, produces television programs, operates 28 television-broadcasting stations, operates four cable/satellite networks around the world, and has investment and programming activities in the Internet, multimedia and cable television. Also owns Telemundo, one of the two largest Hispanic broadcasting networks.
* Walt Disney - 2002 total revenues $25.3 billion. Operates the ABC Television Network, which has 226 primary affiliated stations. ABC Radio Networks provide programming to more than 4,600 affiliated radio stations. Radio Disney is carried on 51 stations, including 32 that are owned by the company. ABC Radio Networks also produce the ESPN Radio format, which is carried on more than 700 stations, including 215 full-time (four of which are owned by the company), making it the largest radio sports network in the United States. Disney also owns 10 television stations, 44 standard AM radio stations, and 18 FM radio stations.

Yeah!

what a birthday present, I finally created my blog.