Essay on media avoidance

I knew that the hardest mediums to cleanse myself from were going to be Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter. My free time spent during breakfast allowed me to plan out my day in advanced rather than mindlessly scrolling through twitter. This new habit continued throughout the day, instead of surfing the Internet I replaced my time with productive assignments only. Occasionally, my mind would subconsciously go to Instagram or Twitter, but this only happened a handful of times during day. By employing this routine of replacing my social media use with something beneficial to my time, my homework was finished before I even left school! My school day was completed with minimal media use, but when I found that being at my home was a bit more challenging to abstain from all new media. I decided to go for to the gym for to work out but it is very hard for me to complete a workout without some sort of distraction like using my Spotify account. Unfortunately this was when the media black out challenge defeated me and I succumbed to referring back to my old habits by using media. Though I was able to make it through most of the day without my media, I could not sufficiently complete the full twenty-four

I have chosen the movie Signs to do my worldview analysis on. First, I will discuss the worldviews that the main characters in the movie have. I will then answer the question of if the characters were true to their worldviews. I will also discuss the obstacles that the main characters faced that deterred the character or characters from living out their worldview. Lastly, I will describe mental, emotional, or spiritual reactions I had to the movie as well as explain if I agree or disagree with the worldview present in the movie.

Media is everywhere. Television, newspaper, cell phones, movies, as well as numerous other sources. Today, just about everyone depends on information and communication to keep their lives moving through daily activities. We need to be aware that the values we hold, the beliefs we harbor and the decisions we make are based on our assumptions, our experiences, our education and what we know for a fact. Mass media is relied on for the current news and facts about what is important and what we should be aware of. Media is considered a trustworthy source for news, information, education and entertainment. Though someone has to have thought behind an issue to write it.

For a long time now I've super been ignoring my newsfeed on here. Normally, I just blurt out whatever my brain farts cause i have a fancy computer phone in my pocket at all times and then I look at articles about monkey's tickling each other and frequent my favorite fast food restaurants pages, seeing what the new pile of hot garbage they are serving up is each month.

The single most important media experience for me was listening to the “Gilmore Guys” podcast. In my media log, it is apparent that I came back to this form of media multiple times throughout the day. It was my go-to form of entertainment when I was walking from place to place (for example, 12:21 to 12:40 I was walking Uptown, and 1:30-1:44 I was walking from Uptown to King Library). This is the most significant media experience from that day because it spanned most of the day, where most of my other media experiences, like specific text conversations and looking at articles online, were singular and did not last the whole day. Even in the instances of checking email and Facebook, which I did multiple times, each time I checked I would be looking at new media (new status updates and emails), where as with “Gilmore Guys” I was coming back to the same episode of the podcast over and over again. It is also significant because it prompted me to watch an episode of the show “Gilmore Guys” is about, “Gilmore Girls,” in order to engage even more with the media

Mass media is communication that reaches a large audience. This includes television, advertisement, the Internet, newspapers, and so on. Mass media is a significant effect in modern culture in America. It creates ideas and sustained within society not only send ideological messages out to the public but to advertise this ideas which are tend to manipulate our mantalities.

It was extremely frustrating because I was tired and I felt like I could not relax because I had to stand there in silence and cook. Although, I was annoyed by not being able to watch television I was slowly starting to enjoy not checking my phone every 5 minutes to see if there was a notification. It was a break from having to see what other people were posting on social media. At one point, I did reach to get my laptop until I remembered that it could not be

Saturday, today was a good day. I had one plan today, that was to study and do homework and work on my big assignment due Wednesday. Clearly based on my chart today that didn’t happen. I didn’t listen to any music that day or do any reading. It became a Chicago Fire day, I had made it to season two! I didn't work on Saturday, this was why I had time to watch Tv all day. Again my old-school self watched Tv using my DVD player. I wish I would have studied today, it would have made things better for me on Wednesday. I am a person who strictly sticks to my patterns. If I graded my productivity on my intake of media I would definitely be considered a professional. While I’m on my need to binge Chicago Fire I won’t be watching any other movies

This experience was a lot more difficult than I had expected. I had to do some serious planning before I could go completely electronic free. I had to complete a couple class assignments early and I had to put all of my electronics away, otherwise I would be tempted to use them. When I first started, I felt really weird. I didn’t know what to do at first, and kind of just sat and laid around my apartment for an hour or so. Then I wanted to get together with some friends, but I couldn't exactly get in contact with them. So I started cleaning, and before I knew it, a couple hours had passed, and my entire apartment was spotless. The rest of the day consisted of me going to get food, reading a little bit, doing some homework, and cooking dinner.

Over the period of the two days, I went to a watch movie in the basement of my hall. I also went to go shopping with a group of friends at target, completed my theater homework for the upcoming week, as well as started my argumentative inquiry for my english class. I discovered how much time, that I spent on work was actually pretty lengthy. This is a result of distractions that come up in my social life. The result of my distraction consisted of some which were internal and some that was external such as procrastination, lack of motivation, friends, and roommates.

On October 10th, I successfully completed the arduous task of not using any media for eight hours. Before I started the media fast exercise, I thought this was the most horrible thing that could happen to me. The entire summer, I was on my computer and phone communicating with my friends and watching videos. Being a college student who has a lot of reading homework, I was angry that we could not read because I wanted to read the books for my classes so I would be able to do some of my homework. As I said before, accessing the media is very typical of teenagers and college students. My generation has lived with technology our entire lives. Growing up with technology accessible to us made this exercise so much harder. I later thought about how I worked at a summer camp in the mountains for three summers. At the

I only have chance to read news (CNN) at the end of the day or on the weekend because I’m so busy with school.

I should have paid attention to the time on that one eventful day where I thought I would be leaving the house late for school. There had honestly been a number of choices the previous day that created consequences for that morning. The first choice arose when I decided to try to accomplish everything all at once. That idea meant that if I could complete everything I could have extra time the following day. That is true, but all the work took forever to end. It was around 11:00 pm when I completed it. My action led me to go to bed later than I usually would. Second, I allowed outside distractions to win. The distractions, such as glancing at the TV and even staring the wall, wasted time needed to finish my homework and tasks. Finally, even

During my first lecture, it was quite difficult to not constantly check my phone and see what was going on social media. At one point in the morning, I

I start all my days by taking a shower for about 20 minutes after I wake up at 10 am. After I had showered and dressed, I open my computer to check for my day schedules to identify the assignments that ought to be turned in. While checking the daily routine and class assignments, I make a list on notecard of the assignments that I need to turn in and other important events on my calendar. On April 26, I had a quiz and presentation to prepare. In my diary, I note that I also have a quiz of human resource management class on 28th April, and I need to be prepared for it. Thus, I need to make time to prepare for the quiz during the day. Once I am done with my morning activities, and listing all the things that I need to do on that day, I prepare myself to leave. Prior to leaving my home, I text my close friend Zelda to remember we meet for lunch at 12:30pm at a