Everyday Life and Technology Diary
Order Description
Information about annotated media diary:?
This can take many forms. You are encouraged to think of your own way of presenting the material, and of gathering the material. The diary (which might be ‘actuality’ and based on you) should be fieldwork of some form. It shouldn’t take the form of an essay but should be data, bringing together material and references to the reading. The simplest way of doing this is to think of it as the day in the life of a media/technology-using creature, but you might also want to think of doing it in other ways (a day in the life of a ‘family’ computer, for instance). The point of the exercise is to collect empirical information and to connect this to the issues that we have been addressing in the module. You should aim to investigate the rhythms of media use embedded in the everyday.

(I wish to have a female researcher as it will be more similar to my own daily life)
Instructions
1. Pick ONE ONLY of the technologies for this media diary essay (prefer ”iPhone”mobile phone/ television/ or if you have something better please discuss with me before you start this diary)
2. Apply memories you have of this technology as well as subsequent memories (please if you could include FaceTime (video call) with friends/family oversea in different time as an International student, stay up late using phone and more please, if it is television may talk about how TV create a space for family gathering especially at night time, languages, dramas etc delegation and prescription by Latour reading can apply to both techonologies i.e. alarm on phone etc…; please apply your daily life to this diary and apply theories into your expreience )
3. Identity a main theme or more (may use 3 or 4 topics for the diary; please use subtitles/ titles)
4. Try to think whether those themes are the result of theoretical ideas that we have come across in this module (readings) or elsewhere
5. Use first person for the whole essay, do not talk about others
6. Include Introduction, main body and conclusion (introduction and conclusion conducted in small part is fine)
7. Trying to make the ordinary extra ordinary
8. Please use the readings I have uploaded for you + read the introduction and reading lists for the guideline I uploaded (which contain each session seminar contents) for addressing this diary
9. If you want to use image (have to be useful) visual ethnography

Suggestion:
– Please try to focus more on their everyday life theories: Michel De Certeau (la perruque), Felski, Sliverstone (strategic narratives/strategic rhetoric/cultural power), Lefebvre, Latour (delegation and description), Bull, Shove and Southerton … (the readings I have uploaded)
– For the diary, you may write it in a daily life routine as an International student (alarm, go to uni, use phone for communicating, recording life by photos and videos, reading news, late night phone activity ”music” create a own space please read session 7 Bull reading…etc)
– Please make clear themes/ subtitles (you may use different theories as a theme, or daily routine, talk about the change of life with a mobile phone)
– Apply clear and depth theories into each theme