A day without media

It had not even occured to me from the very beginning of this assignment how much media has worked its way into my life. I didn't even really consider my ipod as "media".  I always thought media was just facebook and the news and those sorts of things. So right off the bat I learned something new about media's impact on me without me knowing. I think the hardest part of the assignment was trying o counter-act the reflex. I have been so accustomed to having my finger on the pulse of my regularly consumed media that I had to actively fight the reflex to whip out my phone or apple device. I even had the fight the reflex to go places on my computer rather than stay focused on writing. Even when I wasn't doing it myself I had to avoid listening to a T.V. in the union or not look at someone elses phone. The whole experience was actually kind of depressing. before I thought, "of course i'm not one of those media junkies, I can unplug whenever I want". However it was a lot harder than I anticipated and it showed me how much media I actually consume compared to what I thought I consumed. I do hope though that I can in the future, not necessarily regulate how much media I take in, but simply screen the type of media and the quality of media I take in. Overall this experience was very interesting to say the least,