Mdia1002 Tute – media practices

First off, newspapers: its impossible to avoid the things in my house, they tend to breed on every spare surface in mockery of weak attempts at clutter-free feng shui. My family each scavenge their own favourite sections, and seeing as I rarely find time to sit and read any through cover to cover, my news absorption is generally based on whatever’s face-up on the bench at breakfast time. Most often thats the local Manly Daily – most entertaining for ‘spot-the-neighbour’ and ‘pet-of-the-week’ – and the SMH – following anything from front-page headlines, sport, opinions and column-8.
Radio provides my most regular news reports – I’ll admit to being a fairly religious Triple-J girl. I comfort myself with the fact that they’re ABC reports, and if there’s something that really intrigues me, I’ll Google-News my way through various media reports to try and get the full story out.
I don’t actually watch that much TV, it tends to be mainly spontaneous couch-potato-ing whenever someone else has switched it on. But I do catch the news a fair bit, and whenever there’s major current events happening (like the floods and bushfires recently) I’ll make an effort to tune in – again giving ABC cred over the commercial channels, but I’m not that elitist – the headlines are all pretty much the same anyway!

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s developing a whoole new vocab of hetereogeneous ontological and epistemological terms from our course readings… Dictionary.com is my best friend in this territory, and when it comes to my own writing I can’t go past its counterpart, Thesaurus.com. The actual books rarely come out… welcome to the Generation Y, I guess.

Aaaand deadlines. Well check this out, I’m more than 12 hours ahead on this one! I’d never go as far as to say I LIKE deadlines, but I’m first to recognise I need them, otherwise my elite procrastination skills would never let me finish anything. Sometimes I’m ahead like now, and others I’m relying on 2am instant coffees, but pretty much 100% of the time I do get there.

Over and out!

Beth Dalgleish
Student #: z3290054
MDIA1002
Tutorial: H12A