The Amount of Media I'm Exposed to

It is astounding the amount of media I’m exposed to in one week. I knew I watched a lot of TV, and I’m always in front of my computer, sometimes with the TV on as background noise. However, I was quite surprised when I tracked the amount of hours of media I listened to, watched and read.

When I sat down and guessed the amount of TV I watched I knew it would be a high number, I’m very interested in TV shows. I like to watch certain shows, and as a college student the TV seems to always be on. I made an estimate of watching 24 hours a week of TV, but actually I watch around 32 on average per week. With watching movies in a movie theatre it depends on the week, some weeks I go out to see a movie and that would add about 3 hours, and this week I did see a movie so that was another three hours added to my media exposure.

Another large number I knew right off was going to be hours spent using my computer. I am attached to my computer, especially AIM. I guess initially that I spent around 30 hours in front of my computer a week. It turns out that it is almost 40 hours a week I am in front of my computer either surfing the web, writing emails or talking on AIM. That is so much time!
If I listen to the radio, it’s usually in my car and I would estimate about an hour spent there. I listen to about a four to five hours of music a week, and an hour reading magazines a week. And I usually spend about 2 hours reading text books a week.

All together my total media exposure consists of approximately 80 hours a week! That is so much exposure for just one person, it’s amazing the different view points and opinion one can get from just watching one television program, never mind 80 hours!