My Personal Network

Information and attention feeds, a day in the life of Mitch.

The day I chose to log my media input/output was  7 October 2012.
Upon waking, I was immediately exposed to an input of media. I was sleeping on the couch of a friend's house, and the television was on with the daily news. From there, I woke my portable laptop and opened my web browser to check my email. I sent responses to emails I had received from the previous day among a variety of things, both exhibiting a media input and output. Facebook was also another site I visited before I showered and started my day, and there I 'Liked" and "shared" some information there. I also clicked on a few links with Youtube videos attached and watched them.

Following my morning media exposure, was the media exposure I encountered with my volunteer position on campus. As any large group on campus, we have a facebook and twitter account of which I solely managed until today. The forst thing I did in the office was "tweet" and post to Facebook, information regarding our cause (medical related). While on Facebook, I also "Liked" and "shared" information on behalf of my affiliated organization. I was both experiencing a media input as well as a media output. I then composed an email addressed to the officers and presidents of the organization with the Twitter and Facebook login and password information. I explained to them how we must stray from posting possibly offensive material as well stick to posting material related to our cause. Here, I was feeding my co-workers information and will soon be receiving information they have posted online.

From volunteering, I then left for work. Im my walk to Pearl Street, I did not check my phone as I enjoy the lack of technology occasionally. Upon arriving to work, I checked Foursquare to see if my boss was there. I experienced an input of media information, and subsequently contributed to a media outflow to a co-worker via text with my location whereabouts. While at work, I frequently checked my phone for messages, as well as the occasional facebook check-up. My phone alers me when I receive an email of a Facebook notification, and thus prompts me to check it.  This happened a few times until my phone died from lack of charge, around 7pm.

Once my phone died, I focused my attention to keeping the store clean until I eventually closed up and left to come back home and finish my homework. My attention varied across an array of platforms throughout the day, both inputs and outputs. After logging my media inputs and outputs makes me realize how much time is invested in social media in particular and media inputs that are difficult to avoid.