That Deprevation Assignment Is Really Going to Suck

BLOG 2 (Due Thurs.) Analyze Your Media Habits - Think about the many different ways to define media. Focus on the things that are most important to you. (Possible questions to consider: What are your current media habits?  How and why have they changed over time?  Who has influenced your relationship with media?  How do you envision your media habits changing in the future?)

I have six email addresses. No, seriously, I have six email addresses that I check at least daily. In combination with Instant Messenger, and my glorious Gold Razr, I'd say it's pretty unlikely I'll ever be unreachable.

Media, to me, is anything that aids or enhances communication. The use of media is due to necessity (I really do use all six), if we no longer need it, we'll no longer use it. When was the last time you used a telegraph?

From the age of 12 my primary form of communication has been my computer. If you were to add up the amount of instant messages, text messages, and emails I've sent in my life the numbers would be astronomical--not to mention the social networking sites that I use more often than I should. Therefore, my computer is a very essential medium.

I've become very biased towards anything that makes things faster & easier. I bought one paper notebook for school, simply because I have a math class. I think I need to invest in a tablet notebook, though. The computer hasn't destroyed written word, it's enhanced it. Obviously, I'm currently writing a lot faster than I can in that silly notebook.

Since I was 15, print media has been very important to me because of my magazine. It was something I wasn't particularly interested in until I started doing it myself. In addition to my magazine, I've become very attentive of ads, and their involvement in day to day lives, as electronic ads become less prevalent due to pop up blockers, and tivo. The presence of print ads still remains relevant after all these years showing that media isn't completely digital.

In the future I expect more of the same progression, but like radio in comparison to television, print will always be relevant regardless of what's available online. I'll never revert completely to my computer (It crashes too often, and I like tangible copies of important things). Remember in sixth grade when they started making you type your paper and print in out? Notice how we're still doing that, even more now.

Just for the record: I'm still waiting on those awesome video conversations in every home like in Back To The Future, though.

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Who are you? Why are you here? Tell everyone a bit about yourself—whatever you want to share. Think about the why you’re here at college, how you ended up in this class, and what you want to learn/gain by taking this class and getting a college degree.

Late January, 70 degrees, six bands, 400 people, five hours, and one dark humid church basement. This was my sixteenth birthday party.

I'm Christine, and I'm kind of a big deal, well--I want to be. At the age of 15 I planned, booked, and promoted the biggest local show the city of Baltimore had seen in a long time. Fast forward two months and I am now the creator and editor of Scene Trash Magazine & Promotions. In addition to running a magazine I am on the street teams of several major and indie record labels and I have become a prominent member of the Baltimore music scene.

The past two years have been a whirlwind of flyers, guest lists, concerts, roadtrips, bands, friends and enemies, and besides some mentoring and reading a few books, it's all been instinct, luck and a whole lot of determination. Thirteen issues & two years later, it's time to do things a bit more traditionally--not that a major in Music Marketing & Administration is traditional, but life by the book's a bit boring.

Some Less Important Things About Me: I'm seventeen years old, I have the best friends in the world. I have a livejournal, that I should write in more. I like Myspace way more than Facebook. I have famous friends, and will go to a different states just to see the same band for the third time in a week. I live near White Marsh, MD and I think you can tell alot about a person by the music they listen to. I'm think NYC & Chicago are amazing cities (the blog I chose to do is about NYC). I never want to work for someone 9 to 5, and I believe whole heartedly in this quote:

"Rock 'n' roll is a lifestyle and a way of thinking... and it's not about money and popularity... Although, some money would be nice. But it's a voice that says, "Here I am... and **** you if you can't understand me." And one of these people is gonna save the world. And that means that rock 'n' roll can save the world... all of us together."

If you know what movie that's from... we can be very good friends. If you don't... how bout we watch it together!?