Why?

Internet- checked the PTV website to see train times

Weather app- checked the weather app

Spotify- Listened to the hottest hits Australia on the train

Facebook- Scrolled through my newsfeed

Instagram- Scrolled through my feed

E-banking- Checked my account balance

How?

To check the weather, I tap on the weather app on my phone, which shows me the weather in Melbourne, and what the weather will be throughout the day. Underneath it also shows the weather forecast for the next week. If I swipe right or left, the city changes and therefore the weather of that city is also displayed.

To check the train times, I type into google, my train line timetable. I then select the correct date and whether I am traveling to or from the city. Then underneath is a list of all the stations that are on my train line, and next to the name of the stations, are all the different times the train stops at these stations and whether or not it is an express train.

Why?

I need to check the weather every morning, as I need to see what the temperature for that day will be as it affects what clothes I need to wear. I also like to just use the weather app on my phone as it is the easiest tool to use and the quickest. I also do need to check the train timetable, as I need to know what time I should get the train to the city, to ensure I am on time to all of my Uni lectures, screenings and workshops. And looking at the PTV website is also helpful as it tells me if there are any train delays.

What?

Internet- Checked the train timetable

Instagram- Scrolled through my feed and explore page

Facebook- Scrolled through my newsfeed

Messenger- Messaged friends

Movie- Watched Hitchcock’s ‘North by North West’ for the screening

Snapchat- Watched snapchat stories of the people I have added on Snapchat

Television- Watched the channel 9 news

My Blog- Posted on my blog

How?

Snapchat is an app that I do not use often, however sometimes I will now and then look at snapchat stories. To do this I tap the Snapchat app on my phone, then I swipe right to see all of the Snapchat stories of people I follow.

As part of the cinema studies course, every wednesday we have to sit a screening, and watch a film we will study. This week we watched Alfred Hitchcock’s film ‘North by Northwest’. How we do this, is we sit in a cinema designed room in building 80, and the lights are off, and there is surround sound, so it feels exactly like going to the cinemas. We are therefore forced to watch the film, to grasp as much as we can in order to study it.

Why?

When I do use snapchat, I use it for entertainment, but only when I am really really bored. Sometimes I find it interesting to look at other people lives and see what they get up to. I also enjoy using the filters Snapchat has.

I have to watch the films in the screenings every week because it is part of the cinema studies course, therefore I do do this for work, yet also for entertainment as I really enjoy watching movies in a cinema setting, as I am focused and can concentrate very well.

What?

Instagram- Scrolled through my feed

Facebook-  Scrolled through my newsfeed

Spotify- Listened to the Les Miserables album

My Blog-  I posted a ‘mymediause’ blog post

Television- I watched Married at First Sight

Internet- I googled ‘The Age’ to check the news

How?

I use google to type in ‘The Age’ into the search bar, then links of related pages to websites is displayed on a google page, I click on the official ‘The Age’ website. This website then displays all the current local and world news that I have the option to read, as well as videos I might also be interested in watching.

I was in the mood to listen to the musical ‘Les Miserables’, so instead of usually clicking on the ‘Global 50’ playlist on Spotify, I typed into the search bar ‘Les Miserables’, then clicked the Les Miserables original film album, and chose the specific songs I wanted to listen to by clicking on them.

Why?

I looked at ‘The Age’ website for my own interest as I like to keep up to date with the latest news, and I find the internet site a really easy way to access all current news, as the website continues to refresh new stories coming through. I listened to Spotify for my entrainment, and Les Miserables especially, because I love musicals, and Les Miserables is my all time favourite musical.

What?

Instagram- Scrolled through my feed and explore page

Facebook- Scrolled through my newsfeed

Internet- Gumtree website for work

Twitter- Scrolled through my twitter feed, and checked to see what was trending

How?

When I am at work doing admin, I take photos of equipment or appliances were are selling online via Gumtree. Therefore I send the photos of the appliances we are selling from my phone to my laptop, then I upload the photos onto Gumtree, along with some information about the appliances and how much we are selling it for. Throughout the day I check the Gumtree ads, by clicking on the tab ‘manage ads’  to see if there are any buyers.

I also check twitter, not as often as I do check Instagram and Facebook, but again I scroll through my feed as it is always the first thing displayed on my screen when I tap the twitter app. Once I have seen all posts on my feed, I click the search icon in the top right hand corner of the screen to allow me to see the world twitter trends.

Why?

I am active on the Gumtree website and upload photos of appliances to sell because it is apart of my work, and something that needs to get done in the work place. People depend on me to find buyers in order to sell equipment that we no longer need to use.

I use twitter for my enjoyment, again like Facebook and Instagram, I love how it can so quickly connect me to the world. I mainly use twitter to see what celebrities I like are up to, and also to see the top trends in order to feel on top of what is going on in the world.

What?

Instagram- Scrolled through my feed and also on the explore page

Facebook- Scrolled through my newsfeed

Messenger- Message my group of friends

Blog- Wrote Saturday’s ‘My Media Use Blog’

Netflix- Watched the movie ‘Me Before You’

Spotify- Listened to the Global 50 playlist

How?

To listen to music, I click the Spotify icon on my laptop, I then click ‘browse’ on the left hand side column, then click ‘charts’, to then click ‘global top 50’. A list of the top 50 songs currently listened to across the world is available for me to listen to, and I then choose the songs I want to listen to, or I shuffle the songs.

My favourite app on my phone is Instagram, as I love to look at peoples photos and know about what is going on in their lives. Therefore I scroll through my feed of the people I follow and see their posts, sometimes I double tap to like the photo or I don’t. I then get into the habit of clicking the explore page icon, which leads me to see many different photos from people I don’t follow, yet I somehow have a liking, interest or connection to.

Why?

I listen to music on Spotify for entertainment, as I use music as an enjoyable way to escape from the everyday world for a while. I also love to listen to the Global 50 sings as I love to keep up to date with the latest hits trending around the world. I also use Instagram for entertainment, and to keep in touch with the social media world around me, I love to connect with all of my friends who I follow, and also celebrities.

What?

Instagram- Scrolled through my feed

iMessage-Messaged my mum on my phone

Internet- Googled movie times to see Beauty and the Beast

Facebook- Checked what memes my friends tagged me in

Cinema- Went to the cinema to see Beauty and the Beast

E-banking- Checked my account balance on my phone through e-banking

Netflix- Binge watched 7 episodes of ‘Riverdale’

How?

If friends I have on Facebook have tagged me in a meme or any post, a notification then notifies me on my iPhone. I then know to access the Facebook app and check the icon on the Facebook homepage that says ‘notifications’ where I will then have the ability to discover what it is my friends have tagged me in. Facebook is really good now at connecting people to different posts and pages, by having people tag or comment their friends creates a strong network.

I also watched ‘Riverdale’ a new Netflix original tv show on ‘Netflix’. To do this, I typed into Google ‘Netflix’, and logged onto my Netflix account. Netflix then suggested all these new movies and tv shows that I should watch or that I would be interested in, as well as movies and shows I am in the middle of watching. I then clicked on ‘Riverdale’, as I had previously seen episode 1 and enjoyed it. I could therefore then watch all more 7 episodes of ‘Riverdale’ straight away, yet episode 9 doesn’t come out until march 31, so not all the episodes come out at once, I just had some catching up to do.

Why?

I wanted to check to see what my friends had tagged me in on Facebook because I knew the content was either going to be funny or intriguing and I knew it was going to capture my attention one way or another. I watched 7 episodes of ‘Riverdale’ on Netflix, because I wanted to entertain myself and I had heard many people talk about how much they are enjoying this show, so I wanted to watch more of it.

What?

Facebook- Scrolling through my newsfeed

Instagram- scrolling through my Instagram feed, and liking photos of people I follow

My blog- I posted on my blog 6 times, this included text, videos and photos

Vimeo and Flickr- I embedded photos an videos from vimeo and flickr onto my blog post

Messenger- I messaged my friends on a group chat on the ‘messenger app’

Spotify- I listened to the global top 50 songs playlist on Spotify

Safari- I googled my train line timetable

How?

In terms of publishing content, I posted text on my blog in relation to an assignment for my media 1 class. Along with publishing text on my blog, I also recorded a video on my phone taken of people painting an advertisement on a building in the city. In order to post this video on my blog, I uploaded this video onto my Vimeo account from a file on my desktop, and shared this video by embedding the link onto my blog post. Therefore when my blog post was posted, the video from vimeo was embedded onto the post and became automatically linked to Vimeo, I also tagged the post ‘vimeo’.

Why?

I posted this video on my blog, because it was a blog post I had to do for Uni. My aim was to show how people are constantly creating media, which is represented in the video, as people are painting an ad for a film on a building, instead of using a billboard like most advertisements. I posted this video also to learn something, to learn and reflect on the reading and discussion for that week that media practitioners need to instead of learning about media, learn with media, and to try to be as creative as possible.