{"id":10,"date":"2024-09-01T21:01:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T21:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:57:25","slug":"my-media-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"My media use"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: I decided to track my media usage on a day off from work.<\/em><\/p>\n

6:00 a.m.: <\/strong>Wake up, and I’m sure a lot of us may have this habit as well, but I scroll through my Instagram<\/a>, Twitter\/X<\/a>, and TikTok<\/a>\u00a0social media accounts for about 10 minutes before I actually get out of bed. I do this to get myself updated on any new news I may have missed, even though not much usually happens over my mere 7-8 hours of sleep.<\/p>\n

6:30 a.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>I’m currently dealing with a sinus infection, so I’ve been doing a lot of resting. After taking my medication, I laid in bed for a few hours and did some Netflix<\/a>\u00a0binging. I decided to rewatch a few episodes of a Chinese drama called Hidden Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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10:00 a.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>I needed to move around a bit, so I played music on my Bluetooth speaker while cleaning my room. I stream all of my music through an Apple Music<\/a> subscription.<\/p>\n

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I have a hard time focusing in silence, so more often than not, there’s some sort of “white noise” being played while I’m doing tasks.<\/p>\n

11:30 a.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>I chatted on the phone with my family using FaceTime.<\/p>\n

12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>I am a huge sports fan, including professional wrestling. Once a month, WWE livestreams a new Premium Live Event (PLE) exclusively on Peacock<\/a>. The device I use to stream these events depends on where I am. I was home that day, so I watched on my TV.<\/p>\n

4:00 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>After every PLE, I scroll through my Twitter\/X timeline to see what the internet wrestling community has to say about the show. I had my fair share of Twitter exchanges this time around sharing my own opinions as well as discussing certain aspects of the show with fellow fans. I also like to check WWE’s official Instagram<\/a> account to see additional pictures and videos that weren’t shown on TV.<\/p>\n

5:00 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>After that, I switched over to Hulu<\/a>. My Hulu subscription doubles as a cable-like subscription with live channels, so I turned on the ESPN channel to catch up on college football news and highlights that I missed.<\/p>\n

While that was playing in the background, I did some studying on my computer. This consists of watching educational YouTube<\/a> videos and reading lots of online articles from sources like the New York Times<\/a>, Washington Post<\/a>,<\/em> and NPR<\/em><\/a>. While reading and watching, I take notes via a paper notebook. I’ve tried to use my iPad for note-taking, but I feel I retain information better by actually taking hand-written notes.<\/p>\n

After I finished learning, I checked my school email for announcements and grade updates.<\/p>\n

6:00 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>The sports-watching continues as I watched the Alabama football game, once again on the TV. My mom and brother were actually there in-person, so they were texting me throughout the game.<\/p>\n

I’ve had the same clear phone case since I bought my phone in 2022, meaning inevitably, it has turned yellow. While watching the game, I did some Amazon<\/a>\u00a0shopping on my phone to search for a new phone case, although I didn’t end up buying one. For some reason, I like to wait for a few days before I make online purchases just to make sure I’m not just buying things I don’t need on a whim or out of boredom.<\/p>\n

9:00 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>I’ve never cared much for reading books, but lately, I’ve been trying to do some reading before bed. I’m currently reading a (physical) book on Greek\/Roman mythology. I find all kinds of mythology to be quite fascinating.<\/p>\n

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10:00 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>I’m someone who needs some background noise in order to sleep. So, I either have whatever video\/TV show\/movie I decide to turn on playing on my laptop, or I play my “Sleep” playlist on my phone on very low volume.<\/p>\n

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How credible are my media sources?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

To be honest, I would give the sources I use, which are mainly social media, a medium-level credibility score. This is because when it comes to getting updates on my interests, such as sports or music, I follow accounts that I feel I can rely on. But when it comes to more serious news, such as politics, social media does a lot of agenda-pushing and spreading of misinformation, so I have to take everything I see with a grain of salt and try to form my own opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: I decided to track my media usage on a day off from work. 6:00 a.m.: Wake up, and I’m sure a lot of us may have this habit as well, but I scroll through my Instagram, Twitter\/X, and TikTok\u00a0social media accounts for about 10 minutes before I actually get out of bed. I do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-mco-425","category-media-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dequiraparker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}