Media Consumption Worksheet

Newspapers

• Which daily newspapers (if any) do you read? None.

• What sections of newspapers do you turn to first, and why? Sports, because I like to keep up-to-date with the football news.

• What sections do you never read, and why? Financial section, adverts for homes and art reviews.

• What kinds of stories do you usually read and why? Big headlines because they intrigue me the most.

• Do you, or someone else, buy the newspaper you read? No. 

Magazines

• What magazines (if any) do you buy regularly? and why? I don't buy any magazines. 

• What sections of the magazines do you read and not read, and why? Sport, big headlines etc...

Television

• Approximately how many hours a week do you spend watching television? 5-6 hours a week

• What times of day do you usually watch television? Late nights (8-11pm)

• What programmes do you like best and why? CSI, because it has a lot of build up to a very tense ending.

• Do you watch alone or with others? Usually with others, but sometimes I may be alone.

• If you watch with others, who decides what you will watch? I do.

Radio

• What stations do you like best and why? Magic, Westside, anything which plays good music.

• Approximately how many hours a week do you spend listening to the radio? 1 hour a week.

• What times of the day do you usually listen to the radio? Whenever I am in my car.

• What stations do you dislike most and why? BBC Radio 2 and 3, very boring radio stations. 

• Do you listen alone or with others? With whoever is in the car.

• Where do you listen to the radio? In my car.

• What other activities (if any) do you do whilst listening to the radio? Drive around to places in my car.

Cinema

• What films, if any, have you seen in the cinema in the last month? None.

• What films have you seen in other places – for example, through rental, satellite film 

channels (free or otherwise) or through video-on-demand? We're the Millers.

• Who else watched the films with you? My brother.

• Who decided what films to watch? Me or my brother.

Internet

• How often do you access the internet? Extremely often. 

• Where do you access the internet? At home, at college or school, or at work? Mainly at home. 

• What are the main sites that you access? Youtube, Twitter, Instagram 

• What are the main reasons for accessing these sites – for example, for information, to make purchases, communicate with friends or for entertainment? I access these websites because they keep me entertained when I am bored, I go onto them and just browse videos and posts. 

• What other activities (if any) do you do whilst accessing the internet? I read football news on any websites which intrigue me. Such as persianleague.com which I keep up to date with football from my mother country.