02/07/2008 Media Use

Weekly hours of media use categorized by different mediums

Medium Category / Hours of use

Television / 28

Radio / 2

Recordings / 12

Magazines / 3

Books / 7

Internet / 35

Video games / 10

Total / 97

Before class, I never really thought about how much the media affects me and the amount of which I use these different mediums. Although, I believe that these numbers can be misleading because many of them are used at the same time which changes how you have to look at the total. The medium that I use most often, as shown above, is internet. This number seems a lot higher than the others, but most of the time I am using other mediums at the same time such as television, recordings or video games. I use the internet for a variety of reasons, such as entertainment, information, and communication.