366 Days of Media Consumption
How many books do you read in a year? How many TV shows do you watch? How many movies do you see?
We’ve all seen the news: media experts, marketing geniuses, and those super nerdy guys who get off on the most finite of demographic details say the internet will be the undoing of old-school media. We’re spending so much time online, web surfing has replaced the trusty scapegoat anathema of my childhood: watching television. Newspapers — doomed for so many years, anyway — are all but a quaint footnote of an antiquated past in a History of Mass Media lecture course. And movies… Oh, Hollywood, you desperate, overmade fool. Of course online video games are out-selling your latest blockbusters. Your product blows and The Cynical Generation (about whom the experts and nerds are all in a tither to begin with) aren’t going to pay $10 per ticket to be dulled 131 minutes closer to death.
Having been born in 1972, I’m just beyond the cutoff of the actual nethead crowd. In other words, while I do remember a time before computers, I’ve had access to mass information systems my entire adult life. Could be a valuable perspective; could be folly. Since I’m a fan of activities which save space at the table for both, I began a personal project to track just how much old-school media I still consume over the course of one year.
Er… 366 days because February is all fancy and supersized for 2012.
Do I read as many books as I like to think I do? Am I a throwback couch-tater, glazed-eyed before the flickering screen, remaining true to the anthem of my youth: here we are now; entertain us. Do I watch any movies?
If you would like to see all posts from my 366 Days of Media Consumption project, click the media-consumption tag here, in my sidebar, or at the bottom of any project-related post.
(This project was inspired by Stephen Soderberg’s 2011 Reading and Watching List and Jack’s Views List of the Year Project.)
My name's Sara, but most folks call me Sadie. I'm a coffee-connoisseur (read: addict), stay-homer, and I've been married so long I'm practically a sitcom. I take pictures of things nobody else seems to, read compulsively, and sass-mouth the food and cookware while I'm cooking. Join me for daily posts about my kitchen (mis)adventures, my level of caffeinatedness, silly conversations with my family, and whatever adorkable situation I've gotten myself into this time!
