Tutorial task 9

Media inventory:
This is a stock inventory of all of the media I have encountered today:
- I woke up to the alarm on my iPhone, and had an SMS waiting for me
- I turned on my laptop, checked my facebook, and my emails
- I listened to my iPod on my iPhone as I got dressed to come to uni
- I turned my laptop back on to check the Griffith portal to make sure class is still on
- at the bus stop I read the bus timetable- and read it again when the bus was 15mins late (yes I'm aware that doesn't actually convey my aguish to the bus but I feel like it helps)
- once the bus finally arrived, there was colorful sticker advertisement on the side of the bus, and many posters on the bus, advertisement for the go-card system, info about the fare increases, etc
- along the bus trip I saw billboards, street signs, stop signs, electronic road signs
- as the bus approached the uni I saw the 'Griffith university' signs, on campus there are a variety of bulleient boards, writing on the buildings for building and room numbers, more griffith uni signs
- in the lecture the lecture notes were displayed on the projector screen, Adam spoke to us, and videos and pictures were shown, I took notes during the lecture on my iPad, and may have checked my emails and facebook (of course not while you were speaking Adam)
- walking around campus I saw a guy wearing a Kurt Cobain tee shirt, with a picture of him in a straightjacket and the words "I hate myself and I want to die" on the back
- there was even advertisement from the uni about hygiene and safety on the back of the toilet door

I guess this would be a typical day in my life (while at Uni), and since we are only half way through the day there would be more, pretty much everything in reverse as I make the trip back home, then some TV.

I thought it would be more interesting/accurate to give an account of all the media I have experienced today, rather then trying to think of what I would have encountered on a typical day, because I would never have thought of half the things on my list.

It is somewhat amusing, possibly even a tad alarming to see how much media, in all its various forms that I encounter everyday, we are overloaded by messages everyday in modern society, and it really does highlight the message from todays lecture, that the media is invisible in our environment unless you selectively choose to pay attention to it!