{"id":1079,"date":"2021-07-04T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2021-07-05T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:32:23","slug":"y-manana-mas-in-english-passive-consumption-of-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/y-manana-mas-in-english-passive-consumption-of-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Ma\u00f1ana M\u00e1s in English – Passive consumption of media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scrolling through Reddit reading post after post, comment after comment. Watching TikTok after TikTok. Scrolling through Instagram only to see an endless succession of glossy and perfect photos. Staring at a screen watching episode after episode. Doomscrolling in the news feed\u2026 stop it! How much time do we spend doing that? My take is that it\u2019s more than we\u2019d like to admit.<\/p>\n

I get that we often do that because it\u2019s very, very easy; we can be mindlessly scrolling in the public transport, at home, while waiting in a queue and at times even when we are meeting our friends if at that moment nothing is going on! I just can\u2019t accept that. You see, it’s so much information that, although we do think that we are viewing is quite significant, in the end we aren’t able to remember the vast majority of it. The experience of viewing that many \u201cinteresting\u201d things ends up in our memory as an unremarkable event we can easily forget the details of. To better explain myself, I\u2019m going to talk about the perception of time.<\/p>\n

Perception of time when consuming media:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This section is about how we feel<\/u> time. For instance, when we are waiting in a queue or we are subjected to a boring class, each minute seems to last forever. In contrast, when we are spending some time with our friends, hours seem to fly by very quickly. Those are two examples of how we feel at that specific moment how time is passing, and it\u2019s called prospective time perception.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, though, we also have another type of time perception which happens after the event: retrospective time perception. Using the same examples as before, even if the clock is moving at a painfully slow pace when you\u2019re waiting in a queue, in the end nothing significant happened during that time period, so you\u2019re bound to have almost no memories about that event. After all, you can just brush that off as \u201ca really boring while\u201d. In contrast, when you\u2019re having a really good time with your friends, you\u2019re most certainly going to remember a whole lot of details about that day.<\/p>\n

I promise I\u2019m not making that up; I can relate that to my own experience because I often remember small details about having fun with my friends. Something like: and that day in December 2019 my friend got into a shopping cart and we pushed him around the empty parking lot until the security guard told us off. Thanfully, the security guard was very nice, so we didn\u2019t get into trouble.<\/em> In short, your memory often keeps the most exciting or outstanding moments.<\/p>\n

If we put all this into a chart, it should look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nSUPER BORING<\/strong><\/td>\nWOW, SO EXCITING<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prospective<\/td>\nLong<\/td>\nShort<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Retrospective<\/td>\nShort<\/td>\nLong<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

But wait a second\u2026 there is a third pattern of time perception.<\/p>\n

Behold, the short-short time perception pattern. Time will fly by like you\u2019re having a great time, but you will be so overflowed with information that you won\u2019t remember anything significant from that experience.<\/p>\n

My opinion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve reached this far in this article, you\u2019ve been passively consuming it. The problem is that well, what I\u2019m saying is something you were probably already aware of. Additionally, you probably think that nothing can be done about this issue. I suspect that thinking that you simply can\u2019t help it is very common, and in some way I agree: very often this activity seems to be the only available option. As I\u2019ve said before, scrolling on social media is very convenient in many, many different situations, so it\u2019s no wonder why it\u2019s so common.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I refuse to believe it\u2019s the only option.<\/p>\n

Just think about the possibilities: when you\u2019re waiting at the doctor\u2019s or when you\u2019re commuting in public transport, you could be reading instead. If one afternoon you don\u2019t know what to do, you could phone up or text a friend. Bear in mind that your friend might be feeling down and in need of interaction, so even if you don\u2019t know what to say, your friend will appreciate it.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, now that it\u2019s summer you could plan activities with friends or do them on your own. In fact, you don\u2019t even need to plan anything; just tell your friend if they want to go out for a stroll. The whole point of this article is that I believe people our age should cut down on the time we spend doing meaningless media consumption and turn to other people or to ourselves. It’s not that I believe we should \u00abcompletely eradicate\u00bb that habit; let’s not be so extreme. But yeah, I do think that in far too many cases it’s too much, and in my opinion the idea of creating content sounds more attractive than just consuming it.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, if you want to take heed of this advice swap some viewing time for time for creativity and time for socialising!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduction: Scrolling through Reddit reading post after post, comment after comment. Watching TikTok after TikTok. Scrolling through Instagram only to see an endless succession of glossy and perfect photos. Staring at a screen watching episode after episode. Doomscrolling in the news feed\u2026 stop it! How much time do we spend doing that? My take is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iesjavirtual.es\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}