Media and Society Blog Assignment Day 2

March 28, Thursday

At 12:08a.m., I checked my AccuWeather app on my phone and learned that the weather on the following days would be okay (at least for me). I did not mind the Quaker advertisement at the bottom of the weather forecast and wondered how many AccuWeather app users actually click those advertisements. Fancy as they are, I think that the adverts in the app are never congruent to the weather.

When I woke up at 10a.m., though never really planning to eat at the dining hall, I went to Brough Commons just to get a copy of The New York times.

Some time in the afternoon, and friend and I walked to the Dickson Street Bookshop. I had nothing else to read in my room so I decided to buy old copies of National Geographic. I collect National Geographic magazines so that was the first thing that came to mind when I thought I needed new reading materials. At the bookshop, I found a copy of a 1987 special National Geographic hardbound: 100 Years of Adventure and Discovery. The book had a lot of photos that I haven’t seen before.

At ten in the evening, I browsed through the CNN and Philippine Star websites and shared some of the news I read on Facebook.

1. Internet (AccuWeather adverts)
2. Newspaper (The New York Times articles and adverts)
3. Books/Magazine (National Geographic)
4. Internet (CNN.com)
5. Internet (PhilStar.com)

This is a Media and Society assignment on our media "contacts." Day 2 of 5.