media engagement update

my first post i was surprised to find out how much time i was really spending and engaging with media. in terms of media other than my cell phone, not a lot has changed. when i’m at work i’m constantly in front of two monitors, and when I’m not at work I’m usually spending my time working on school work, also infant of a monitor. my cellphone use however, my screen time on my phone has dropped significantly, a drop of 39% since last week. i think this is largely due to the fact that i was conscious of how much i was using my cellphone and was making an effort to stop using it so much. although, school workload has been steadily picking up, along with extra hours at work so that may have played a significant role in the 39% drop from the prior week. there was no tutorial in class this week, but the reading by Henry Jenkins was of interest to me. he talks about complaining to his colleague Amy about the 50 emails that he had gotten after being offline for a month, and this was back in the 80’s. it made me think that i am more excited now when i get physical mail, rather than when i get emails. maybe that is just because it a rare thing now, because of the digitization of the world. it made me think that perhaps old media could make a comeback in the near future, unlikely but maybe it could happen for different reasons. Henry Jenkins also noted that he was a fan of Twin Peaks back in the 80’s, which i am also a fan of. besides all that, the only other media engagement aside from working, doing school work and being on my phone is watching Netflix, true crime shows in particular at the moment.