The media is all around us. Even now as I'm writing, music is playing from my radio, I have a YouTube video of Barack Obama's inauguration, and I'm running AIM. To many distractions at one time? Perhaps, but how many can say that this is not the norm for a typical study session? For so many people the media as becoming more easily accessible and it is becoming more integrated into our everyday lives. Information whether in print or electronic is presented to the public in a variety of methods. For me, most of my media consumption is absorbed through the Internet. I use it for just about everything school related and I use for it for entertainment purposes more often than I watch TV. Newspapers are becoming a bigger part of my media consumption as well. Last year I was required to have a subscription to the New York Times for one of my classes and I have the same deal going for my principles of electronic media class. I'm still not in the habit of picking up the paper every day but I am getting better. My biggest form of media consumption probably comes from movies, I am a huge moviegoer especially during the summer. Although once a movie is out of theaters I find that I don't have a strong a desire to watch it even if I rushed to buy the DVD.
