Media Consumption Diary
Yuhuan HU (Shane)
I tracked my media consumption behavior between Jan 26th (Thursday) and Jan 27th (Friday) and here is an overview of my consumption behavior.
Dear Media,
According to my Twitter bio, I’ve been on the platform since 2009. Eight years later, it’s…
As a kid I watched SportsCenter every single morning, and just about every night. The famous “da-nah-nah-da-nah-nah” jingle was the soundtrack to my, and many other young boys, lives. ESPN has even made…
I am a twenty-something non-white female immigrant art journalist living in Los Angeles, California, and I’m two weeks into a media cleanse. Although I knew I was suffering from media burn-out, I’d only realized this last bit of information upon completing a 48-hour media consumption log.
I am a voracious consumer of news. As a journalist, I follow the activity of professional news organizations and the journalists that comprise them. I track the thoughts and actions of politicians and business…
Apparently I’m pretty lazy when it comes to consuming news. After following my consumption over two days, logging each interaction with content on a spreadsheet, I found that spreadsheet emptier than I’d like it to be.
Okay, before writing this first post I need to be honest. My final results are far from accurate. For me, it was really difficult to keep track of my media consumption habits. Why? Because I tend to check my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts (almost…
First, let me come clean: I am a mother of two kids and a graduate student. These two identities define and limit my media habits more than anything else at this moment of time. If I didn’t have kids and…
Sometimes, I have this dream where I’m on a train. I don’t know which train it is; maybe the D.C. metro, or one of the newer lines in NYC. But it’s crowded. When I look around me, I never see bodies, just faces. They have human features, sure, but they’re lifeless and gray…
