Media Diary Of Everyday Life And Technology

I need a media diary of everyday life and technology.
This essay requires two things – an engagement with the module material and research (This is really important, i will upload 3 articles which are core readings of my module, please make sure to read them carefully. The music one is especially important! )
Please choose one music phone app from “Spotify” and “Netease Cloud Music” to analyse. You can analyse it from some angles which are related to the core readings I uploaded. For a diary concerned with everyday life it is really important to think about the context for listening to music. For example, you record your one day that you were spending about eight hours simply listening attentively to music, but I imagine that you were doing a host of other things at the same time. It would be the interactions, the changes in attention, that would be important.
I will also upload 2 examples, please read them carefully as well. You can learn how they analyse their chosen app, the format and angles they used.
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’ or ‘ethno-fiction’, and might be based on you or someone else) 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.
If it helps you, you could think of your essay in a variety of ways:
:Issue-based: identify the issue that you think is most interesting a productive (dailiness, or domesticity, or distraction for instance) and then identify the technology and/or media that you think is going to make this issue most vivid. Your research would need to pursue the issue (i.e. what else has been written about domesticity that might be useful in this context) and to study the specific media-techs you are looking at (this might be historical, via representation, small-scale ethnography, etc.)
Object-based: here you might want to start with the media-tech that you think is particularly interesting (or weird, or awkward, whatever). The crucial think here would be to provide the most productive description of it and how it connects to the everyday. Then out of this descriptive analysis you could choose a specific issue or set of issues that you let the object dialogue with.
Other based: this is open (of course). You might want to pick up on something from the worksheets, or devise your own project. It might have to do with a method more than an object or an issue (small scale ethnography, for instance). It might start with a place (the media technology of a kitchen, for instance), or of a communicative forum (weather forecasts, for instance). You might want to make this a particularly creative piece. While this allows you to be very free you still need to follow the main ingredients – engagement with ideas, and your own research.
If you don't want to write about music phone app and have any other good ideas about other technologies, or you have some questions about this work, please send me a message as soon as possible. Thank you sooooo much!