Media Diary // Week 5: Uses&Gratifications

First Text: Geordie Shore


After a long waiting for new season of Geordie Shore, season 11's first episode finally hit the screens of MTV. Geordie Shore is a text that I would put in the Entertainment gratification due to it's humour. I think that Geordie Shore is extremely humorous personally due to the use of personalities in the Geordie Shore family, however some people would disagree due to its high rudeness and sometimes vulgar outlook on certain situations with in the show. I also think that Geordie Shore fits the description of the entertainment gratification as in every episode previous to the new season, there is always drama, with boy troubles, fights and just the results of consuming too much alcohol.
I also think that Geordie Shore fits the Social interaction gratification as the stars that take part in the show are always active on Twitter, which is one of the main social networking sites on the internet, and they tweet about the show and certain parts of the show, which would cause other users to respond to their addresses to the subject. Another way in which Geordie Shore uses Social Interaction is by the adverts before the show is about to start or resume from it's breaks, of using hastags on Twitter, when they're talking about the show.

Second Text: Criminal Minds

 
The UK premiere of Criminal Minds Season 11, aired Monday, which does not have much escapism as it is quite an interesting and intriguing programme, which fits way better with Entertainment. The programme is full of drama due to the mystery of the BAU (Behavioural Analysis Unit) finding who the killer of that episode is.
Another gratification that this programme uses is Information/Surveillance due to the specialist information used in the episodes and how they identify a killer, but also we gain a lot of knowledge of what sick things people actually do in the world.
The programme also relates to Personal Identity in some aspects as in the episodes, there is always a quote read out by one of the characters either after or before the killer is found in the programme, at which an audience member could relate to in some way or another, whether that be something they live by, or something that is similar in describing a life event that has previously happened.