Week 3 Consumption

Media Consumption for week 3:

Movies
-none

Broadcast TV
-Various College Basketball Games
-The news

Music
-A lot of Third Eye Blind
-T.I. Paper Trail CD
-Britney Spears Circus CD
-Akon
-Cartel

Computers/Internet-Various web sites, including facebook.com, gmail.com, DEPAUL.EDU, youtube.com, ebay.com, craigslist.com, blogger.com

Books
-Media Literacy
-Chicago Blues

Magazines
-None

Cable TV
-Sportscenter
-Friday Night Lights
-NFL Primetime
-Tool Academy
-Rock of Love with Brett Michaels
-College Basketball
-Parental Control
-America's Best Dance Crew

Newspapers
-None

This was an interesting week of consumption for me. It was the first week since August that football did not air. This was big because Sunday is usually the day I consume the most media. With no football airing, I was left with hours of junk on the TV and listened to a lot of random music. I saw two shows for the first time called Tool Academy on VH1 and Rock of Love with some appearant famous rockstar names Brett Michaels. I have never heard of him but i still watched the shows because there was nothing on. The shows were pretty lame and I definitely feel like my media locus was low. I did not want to watch the shows but I kept the TV on. Looking back at it, I feel like I wasted a few hours of my life watching those shows. One thing I did like however was the switch of a sports to basketball. I caught some good games like Louisville upsetting Pitt, and Marquette beating DePaul(shocker) and Notre Dame. It was interesting that not having football made watch more college basketball than usual. I love sports and I feel like its the best form of reality TV because I feel like I can relate to athletes because I have trained for sports and I understand what it is like to try to beat another side who has equally trained as hard as you. In that sense, my media locus was good because I had no regrets towards watching basketball. Lastly, I listened to a lot of Third Eye Blind for some strange reason. I do not know why but maybe that has to do with me not being very media literate. But at the same time, I love the band and grew up listening to them. I am kind of confused on this topic but either way, I feel like I wasted my sunday because the media grabbed my attention too strongly. For the next week, I will try to go back to consuming less media, however, it is Superbowl sunday so I will obviously be catching that.