MY MEDIA EXPOSURE TIMELINE

In such a young age, I was already fond of reading books. Well, probably not reading perfectly but this is what truly influenced and built the foundation of my love towards reading.

My family has television and radio this time but I was more aware of myself reading books.

Media are the communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or data. The term refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, the news media, photography, cinema, broadcasting, and advertising.
Media exposure may be defined as “the extent to which audience members have encountered specific messages or classes of messages/media content.”

These three years of my life were one of the memorable ones. There were happy moments such as my very first time to attend school, visiting the library weekly and others. But painful times aren't an exception, I lost a gem and a hero in my life.

Year 2005, I would be so excited and jump out of happiness whenever I would hear the song "Hawak Kamay" by Yeng Constantino through the radio.

Before, when the library beside Loon Gymnasium was still open, I can still remember how often my mom would bring me there to read books about fairy tales and Cinderella was my all-time favorite.

We may not have television in this time but my Aunt next door would always call me whenever the show "Super-Inggo" was starting already. Remembering those days makes me giggle.

And lastly, the camera. I was starting to be aware of what cameras are for. When my father died, his family went here in Bohol to be with us and my mom would take pictures of us.

This year, I was in 1st grade studying at Napo Elementary School. Books, camera and television were still exposed to me this time. But physical medias for games were introduced to me this time. Such as gameboy, PSP, and Nintendo DS. I was blessed to have family members who gave those gifts to me. And as an exchange, I studied hard and was awarded the second honor of the class.

Year 2009 was the year when I got my first phone and used a computer. I could still remember listening to a radio station using my phone which is a Samsung Flip Phone. I also played a lot of online games with my cousins at Tagbilaran City.

In the year 2010, my and my mom flew to Manila to live with my dad's family. I got another phone and it was a Hello Kitty keypad. I was still exposed to television, camera, and books. But I was more on using my cellphone, nintendo ds and computers.

By this time, all my gaming media is gone. We went back to Bohol and my mom pursued working at Hong Kong to provide my needs. And that was when communication through media became so important for me. To aid it, I would go to internet cafes to talk to her because our phones can only provide texting and calling so it would be expensive. This time I was more exposed to radio for entertainment because we don't have television anymore.

This is the year when I passed the exam at Bohol Island State University- Main Campus at Tagbilaran City and ENSCIMA at Dauis. Decisively, they chose that I would attend junior high school at BISU since it was nearer from Tiptip, the place where I stayed for a year. I wasn't any more exposed to books this time because our school don't provide us books.

This were my years of pure suffering. My mom decided that I would live in a boarding home for three years. Well, everything was fine and safe there but they don't have internet connection and television in our rooms so I would always go to internet cafes for entertainment, research and communication. Three years without books was a pure torture for me but thanks to the high-tech phones, there are applications that allows me to read various texts.

After finishing junior high school, I transferred to Sacred Heart Academy at Loon, Bohol for senior high. Knowing that they offer books really motivated me to do better at schoo and it brought back my lve towards reading.

This time, cellphone became really useful to me because whenever and wherever I can use internet for any purpose whether for education, entertainment, etc. and computers are only used for encoding and printing.