f13.net

So I'm supposed to interview people for a class called Media & Society.  I thought I'd post the interview questions here in case anyone feels like taking a few minutes to help out.

a. What websites do you visit daily or weekly?
b. What shows or stations do you watch?
c. What radio stations do you listen to?
d. What video games do you play?
e. What are the last few movies you have seen?
f. Who are your favorite bands, comedians, artists?
g. Where do you get your news?
h. Do you subscribe and or read any newspapers or magazines (online or print)?

a. f13, neogaf, ebay, craigslist, 4ch
b. house, californication, top chef
c. radio is dead.
d. i play games like imagine: babyz, my kids play games like grand theft auto
e. bourne ultimatum and superbad
f. dali's car - I think that covers all 3. It was, most certainly a joke.
g. A SERIES OF TUBES.
h. newspaper is dead.

The internet is neither a series of tubes nor a dump truck.

Your school seems like a dump truck. If this is a real survey, it's where education goes to die.

a. f13.net, philadelphiaflyers.com, woot.com, icanhascheezburger.com, (assorted anime release places)
b. Flyers hockey, um....Discovery, cartoon network/adult swim infrequently.
c. 94.1 wysp (philadelphia) for my commute to and from work
d. Seriously? I don't feel like making that big of a list.
e. 3:10 to Yuma. Before that, um.....that stupid TMNT movie, and I think 300 before that.
f. Don't feel strongly about any of these to care.
g. f13.net. It's a hell of a lot easier than trying to sit through TV news, and I unfortunately don't have much time anymore to hunt through websites for news that isn't crap.
h. Um....GameInformer? It's for the dumb discount.

Schild's right, your survey sucks. Apologies.

a.  f13, BBC, The Endicott Studio
b.  Dexter (my fav), Flight of the Conchords, some other junk, and some unmentionable reality shows.  Ok, it's Big Brother.  And Survivor.  THAT'S ALL, I SWEAR!  (mostly)
c.  I haven't listened to radio since I stopped working where it was pretty much required.
d.  Right now I'm playing EQ2, Wild Arms 5 and Two Worlds (where I seem to be a very studly man)  I'm fickle, though, and that could all change tomorrow.
e.  One of the Harry Potter's at the theater because my father and sister talked me into it (I've had an unnatural phobia about theaters for the last few years)  On DvD:  Premonition (horrible), Wild Hogs (terrible)
f.  The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Ministry, TKK; Lenny Henry, Billy Connelly; Willem de Kooning, Banksy
g.  Ted Stevens
h.  No.  I have forgotten how to decipher words on scraps of tree.

Now get an A+.  I believe in you.

PS  Straz, do you really get your news from f13?  You do realise most of what people say here is just a load of bollocks, right?   :evil:

Eh, kinda, ya Signe. People post a decent article or link down in Politics every now and then.

Sorry, but hunting for good, honest news is not the first thing I want to do when I get home at 6pm at night....or 9:30pm if I'm due to waste time at Gamestop...


What? The discount is handy.

a. Google, BBC News, Pitchfork, F13, Metacritic, Technorati, TheSeaweedFarm, Slashdot, Metafilter, Youtube.
b. Stations are meaningless. The BBC thingie of Jekyll was the most recent show that fully got my attention off the computer the longest.
c. Radio? You have that in America? I though you just had twats talking between adverts.
d. MMORPGs, turn based strategy games, RPGs that don't appear to be too linear.
e. Dunno. They were all shite. Except Hot Fuzz, that was funny.
f. Ash Ra Tempel, Buzzcocks, Can,  Eric Dolphy, Eloy, Faust, Grobschnitt, Hawkwind, IEM, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, Led Zeppelin, Massive Attack, Neu!, William Orbit, Porcupine Tree, Queens of the Stone Age, Rush, System 7, Talk Talk, Underworld, Van der Graaf Generator, Wire, XTC, Yello, Frank Zappa
g. People (at least I assume they are real people)  link it to me in IRC chat rooms.
h. Classic Rock.

A. F13.net, Facebook.com, My school site (sheridaninstitute.ca)
B. Spike, Discovery Channel, A&E
C. 102.1 The Edge, Mix 99.9
D. NHL07, Rainbow Six Vegas, Hitman 1,2,3 & 4, Day of Defeat Source
E. Simpsons Movie, Rush Hour 3 and Superbad
F. John Mayer, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy
G. Intarweb. Random sites and F13
H. Nein

a. f13.net, forums.somethingawful.com, escapistmag.com, assorted personal blogs/similar.
b. None.
c. None.
d. Varies. Presently Persona 3. Sometimes some Guitar Hero 2. Games are a slow-burn thing for me.
e. According to Netflix, the last 4 movies I watched were Letters from Iwo Jima, From The Earth To The Moon (HBO miniseries), Silence of the Lambs and Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle. That probably covers 6 weeks of watching-time.
f. Uh...? I don't see enough comedy shows, go to enough art exhibits, or listen to enough music to have favorites.
g. Word of mouth. Email lists. F13.
h. No. Except when I'm flying, at which point I usually pick up The Economist or something similarly information-dense from the airport magazine shop.

a. f13, gotfrag, bbc, aljazeera
b. don't own a TV
c. classical
d. counter-strike, dota
e. ... ugh, i intend to see Die Hard 4?
f. Lacuna Coil, Eddie Murphy, Caravaggio
g. teh intertron machine
h. Time

1. The major 3 gaming sites, TTH, F13, ESPN, The Drudge Report.
2. ESPN, Sci-Fi channel occasionally, Fox for the stock ticker.
3. Only local stations for the most part. One alt rock, one oldies.
4. Damn near any I can get my hands on. They are my passion.
5. The Aristocrats, Superman Returns, The Prestige
6. CCR, STP, Fall Out Boys, George Carlin
7. Mostly the AP ticker at work coupled with various net sites
8. WSJ, The Weekly Standard, PC Gamer, GQ, SI


Yes I did a numerical list just to be different.

a) f13, corpnews, classicalpontiac.com, Yahoo ("work friendly), wikipedia (I get bored at work)
b) I don't watch TV
c) I don't listen to the radio
d) WoW
e) Last saw.... Knocked Up in the theatre because the other half wanted to.  Clerks X is in the DVD player but only made it 45m or so into it.
f) Slayer
g) here (with commentary), Yahoo (because I get bored at work)
h) Smoke Signals (absolutely NOTHING else now that Jane magazine is defunct)

Sounds almost like a damn myspace survery =P

a. f13.net, e-mail, fantasysports.yahoo.com, also random poker sites.
b. Typically Adult Swim, most animal shows, also anything on discovery.
c. Not since my car was stolen. It doesn't work anymore.
d. Bioshock, GHII, Online Poker where I'm trying to turn $0 USD into $10000. Currently at $.04 USD.
e. The last Harry Potter, Borat, Pan's Labryinth. Also some older movies like The Big Sleep and All The King's Men. (Free MOD rocks!)
f. Comedians? Flying Conchords, Mitch Hedberg, Dana Carvey, the list really is too long to do it justice. I love stand-up. Artists? Pretty much any writer in the early modern period (Faulkner/Woolf/Hem/Fitz/etc, etc). Nabokov is pretty good too. Bands? Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, when I was a kid I loved Metallica, so I have to throw that out there. Josh Groban is pretty good too.
g. Honestly? Mostly by word of mouth. I refuse to watch the news, so anything I find out about is either on some sort of frontpage or by accident.
h. I read the St. Petersburg Times and PC Gamer generally, and I am also currently on the official E. Hemingway listserv (it isn't a paper, but it's something I subscribe to).

a. f13, guild forum, lum's, tweety's & amber knight's blog, crooks & liars, videosift & order of the stick.
b. No TV, but we rent netflix shows. Right now working on Heroes, the Office, House & old star trek
c. NPR and sometimes flick through an assortment of alternahard rock stations here in Seattle.
d. IL2-Sturmovik 1946, Bioshock, WoW and the occasional  :nda:
e. Hot Fuzz, Harry Potter
f. AC/DC and right now, Lacuna Coil & Silversun Pickups. Comedians, I'd have to say Peter Sellers as an all time fave. Artists, Picasso & Dali
g. A series of tubes
h. New Yorker.

a. f13.net, guild forum, dilbert.com, basicinstructions.net, globeandmail.com, slashdot.org, games.slashdot.org, lots of others
b. What shows or stations do you watch? don't watch TV
c. What radio stations do you listen to? CBC radio 1, local stations you've never heard of
d. What video games do you play? WoW, :nda:, Civ 4, Oblivion, trying-to-get-into-medieval-2-total-war-but-failing-so-far
e. What are the last few movies you have seen? Stardust, Bourne Ultimatum, Paris je t'aime
f. Who are your favorite bands, comedians, artists? my list is suspiciously similar to Signe's
g. Where do you get your news? Mainly newspaper, radio
h. Do you subscribe and or read any newspapers or magazines (online or print)? Yes

Given the generally high intelligence level of f13 types, I'm surprised how few of you actually read a real news source. You should be more careful, or one of these days you might accidentally elect an ideological President who drags you into an unwinnable war or somesuch.

a. f13, ign, aintitcoolnews, quicktime trailers, various rpg sites like en world and the wizards homepage
b. Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Heroes, Real Time with Bill Maher (when I remember), the Daily Show (when I remember)
c. A local rock station and a local conservative talk radio station
d. genres: rpgs, fps, strategy (not realtime!!!!)
e. Stardust, Balls of Fury, Transformers, Die Hard 4.
f. in order Queen, David Schimmel, Dane Cook (to stir up the crowd around here.)
g. MSNBC website, talk radio and the f13 politics forums. (yeah, I know, it's scary.)
h. The only newspaper in town is called the Daily Disappointment, errr...meant the Daily Jokelahoman. Err..the Daily Oklahoman. It is the FOX news of newspapers and has been known to run conservative opeds as front page "news." So....none. Except a free weekly rag called the Oklahoma Gazette.

a. f13, Achewood, Tomatilla!, McSweeney's
b. Food Network, Top Chef, No Reservations
c. NPR
d. Rune Factory, anything from Zelda franchise, most of Mario franchise
e. My Neighbor Totoro, Hot Fuzz
f. Radiohead, TV on the Radio, Cut Chemist, Patton Oswalt (comedian)
g. NPR, talking to husband who reads news
h. I read a free local weekly rag The Mercury (offshoot of Seattle's The Stranger), I subscribe to Gourmet

The questions are too broad, you will get a lot of quality (qualification) with not much correlation (except we are all on F13) and no quantification.

a. f13, a slew of webcomics, nexuswar.com, Google, plus stuff for work.
b. I don't watch TV regularly, but I burn through a lot of shows on DVD.  Currently on Farscape, Weeds, and Boston Legal.
c. Whatever station isn't playing a commercial or something really bad at the moment.
d. Bioshock, Nexus War, and Counter-Strike on and off.
e. Stardust, Bourne Ultimatum, Simpsons
f. I don't play favorites
g. I try to avoid it
h. Esquire, and the occasional issue of Wired I find lying around the office

I'm guessing the breadth of the questions is because it's a survey about media formats.

a.  f13, newsarama, icv2, boxofficemojo, comicbookresources, dcbservice, enworld.org, ign and various other video game sites
b.  Heroes is about the only thing I watch on a regular basis.
c.  Pretty much all of the local stations that don't play country music or music in Spanish.
d.  Just about anything, although I'm really not into FPS games, and I've gotten sick of JRPGs after well over a decade of playing them.
e.  Shoot 'em up, War, Death Sentence, and too many others to list
f.  Any band with Mike Patton, Queen, Bonzo Dog, The Who.  Can't say I've watched any comedians lately.  Alex Ross is the only artist coming to mind at the moment.
g.  All over, including many of the sites listed in the first answer.
h.  No.  Last subscription I had to anything was Rolling Stone about a year and a half ago.

i. f13, corpnews, overclockers australia, sydney morning herald, pvp online, my guild website, whirlpool australia
ii. the insiders, top gear (when its on), spicks n specs, thank god youre here
iii. jjj sometimes - not a lot tho, i'm getting too old for it, abc radio national
iv. right now lotro - thats pretty much it.
v. bourne ultimatum, chicago, 300
vi. don't have a 'favourite'
vii. sydney morning herald, abc news/current affairs, random links in the tubes
viii. no subscription, but read sydney morning herald pretty much daily online.

a. too many to enumerate (here)
b. too many to enumerate (here)
c. terrestrial and ether, connected and uncabled
d. anything artfully done and/or filled with fun gameplay
e. stardust, mr. smith goes to washington
f. too many to enumerate
g. internets
h. yes

a. forums.f13.net, forums.elitistjerks.com, forums.somethingawful.com, penny-arcade.com, youtube.com
b. House MD.
c. None.
d. WoW and BF2142. Not a lot else lately since I haven't had the cash flow to do so. The last other game I bought was FF12. As far as genres I play everything but flight sims.
e. I haven't seen a movie I've not seen before since LoTR3. So... the LoTR trilogy I guess.
f. Bands: Lots. "Delerium" and "In Flames" are probably my favourites atm. Comedians: Dave Hews ("funniest man in Australia") Artists: None.
g. I watch the news on TV maybe twice a week. They replay anything important over and over again so I miss little.
h. No.


EDIT: I excluded websites I "visit" daily/weekly to update.

a. various webcomics, f13, somethingawful, deviantART, lifehacker, CGTalk, Wikipedia
b. I don't watch TV but I occasionally watch anime fansubs.
c. None
d. WoW, Civilization IV
e. Bourne Ultimatum.. I can't remmeber what was before that.
f. bands: a lot of rock, a list too big to spell out really. Metal, house and trance, jazz, classical.. again a lot
  artists: Edward Hopper, sparth, Ryan Church, Alan Lee to name a few
  comedians: I dunno, i guess Mitch Hedburg was pretty funny.
g. newspapers and the inerwebs
h. I don't subscribe to any papers but I read the WSJ and Economist when I get a chance. Most of the newspapers around here suck.

A)  AICN.com, F13, Slashdot, Drudge Report, Yahoo, Multiple MMO forums, Gaming Guild sites.
B)  Heroes, Lost, Smallville, Prison Break, Battlestar Galactica, South Park
C)  Mainly talk radio.  WLS 890 AM, Chicago, IL
D)  Dungeons and Dragons Online mainly, but some random FPS games on the side.
E)  Halloween, Superbad, Bourne Ultimatum, War
F)  Bands:  Rush, Phish, Grateful Dead
     Comedians:  George Carlin, Zack Galifinakis, Penn and Teller
     Artistis:  Umm.. I'm not into art.  :)
G)  Online, Drudge Report, Yahoo, CNN, Fox News
H)  Not really we get the Chicago Tribune, but I rarely read it.  I can get all my news online.

a. f13, elitistjerks.com, tons of webcomics (dieselsweeties.com, penny-arcade.com, threepanelsoul.com are a few), guild forums, and a few other WoW sites less frequently.
b. House and random stuff on PBS. (Also zipping through Alias on DVD at the moment.)
c. -
d. Right now: WoW, Persona 3, and Guild Wars.
e. Lost in Translation, Elizabeth, The Wild Geese, Serenity, Hero (Thank you Blockbuster Rental History!)
f. Nightwish, Millencolin, DragonForce, They Might Be Giants. And not really sure on the comedians and artists.
g. BBC World News, the News Hour, online stuff.
h. Time and Popular Science

a. What websites do you visit daily or weekly?

MMORPG.com, and What ever game i happen to be playing. (and f13, M-f)

b. What shows or stations do you watch?

SI-FI station, and HBO, but i dont normality watch them "live" but in a download or DvD form.

c. What radio stations do you listen to?

NPR, and sometimes, on a rare occasion (when i want to hurt myself) the local "modern rock" station, 96X.

d. What video games do you play?

Currently, LOTRO, Planetside, Company of heroes, and some GRAW2. In the past? I don't think there is a MMO i haven't played, including allot of indi titles. Not all of them get allot of my time however, its mostly research/investigation.

e. What are the last few movies you have seen?

Transformers, TMNT, (Last theater movies) and i regularly have a "Culture night" with a group of 6 friends, we do a round robin with title slections and let every one have a night. It ranges from Shakespeare, to foreign art films, to the occasional documentary. We try to keep it somewhat POP culture free, but the occasional 60' or 70's film creeps in (due to older friends selections)

f. Who are your favorite bands, comedians, artists?

Favorite band is GWAR, others include Soil work, strapping young lad, Mr.Bungle and Clutch...among others, but i feel thoes may be the most frequent ones at the moment.

g. Where do you get your news?

I have many news feeds on my Goggle homepage, with news feeds from spefic topics per page (Gaming, world, sience ETC..)

h. Do you subscribe and or read any newspapers or magazines (online or print)?

Game developers mag, and Wired. Other than that, none.

Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, Sliders, Big Love, Ugly Betty, House, Scrubs, Greys Anatomy, Dresden Files, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Weeds, Californication, Top Chef, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, 24, Boston Legal, Heroes, The Wire, The Office, Painkiller Jane, and The Tudors

Be sure to rely heavily on my data.

a. What websites do you visit daily or weekly?
f13.net, gamerdad.com, google.com, del.icio.us

b. What shows or stations do you watch?
Whatever the wife is into at the time.  Lately Dirty Jobs.

c. What radio stations do you listen to?
None.

d. What video games do you play?
Most of them aside from sports.  Recently: Dungeon Master (1985!), Bioshock, Etrian Odyssey, Persona 3, Forza 2, Carcassone, Line Rider, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Boogie, Baten Kaitos, Titan Quest: Immortal Throne, one or two NDAed beta MOGs.

e. What are the last few movies you have seen?
Batman Begins, Redeye, Sunshine

f. Who are your favorite bands, comedians, artists?
David Bowie, Flaming Lips, Queen, Muse, Metallica, etc., etc.
Three Stooges, Henny Youngman, Sam Kinison, Dave Chapelle
Those artists that painted those landscapes you see in all the old castle-homes.

g. Where do you get your news?
Right in the eye

h. Do you subscribe and or read any newspapers or magazines (online or print)?
I seem to have a subscription to Hir@gana Times, but I generally don't read it.
Online subscriptions don't count.

a.  f13, cnn, rottentomatoes, penny arcade, gamespot.  Other various crap.
b. Too diverse, too many to list.   Also, whatever's on.
c.  NPR, a local alternative station, satellite in my wife's car
d.  Uhh, lots. Mostly on the 360 and PS2.
e.  Superbad, Bourne Ultimatum, Grandma's Boy.
f.  CNN, NPR, intarnets.
g. No real favorites here.  Music and art are mainly just peripheral interests for me. 
h.  I get the Sunday paper.

a. f13, slashdot, digg, fark, news.google.com, a number of online comics
b. daily show, colbert, robot chicken, harvey birdman, ATHF, family guy, futurama
c. NPR for talk radio, various mainstream rock stations (jack format, top 20, etc.)
d. Currently working on S.T.A.L.K.E.R, bioshock, Castlevania SoTN, Guitar Hero 2
e. Sunshine, Simpsons Movie, Transformers
f. Lots of bands, but I tend towards Trance, folk and modern rock. For comics, I'm a fan of Henry Rollins and Lewis Black
g. All my news comes from the daily show or the AP newswire / reuters that gets dumped to all the various sites. I listen to NPR for the in-depth segments, not daily headlines. My not-news comes from fark, and it's generally more accurate.
h. No. Generally, print media is too far behind in my interests of science, tech, games. Something that is weeks old is seriously OLD NOOZ, and for daily headlines I just hit news.google. I'll pick up scientific American or such in the doctor's office.

My thanks to everyone who responded.  I certainly didn't expect so many of you!  As a follow-up, if anyone's interested:

Are you aware of who is in control of your media outlets?  Is it a large conglomeration such as Viacom, or is it privately owned and operated?

The websites? Yeah, it's Arizonan PS3 fanboys, random intertards or a group of hard-drinkin' dudes in North Carolina. Everything else comes from random media conglomerates or some arm thereof. Atlus being an exception.

Going to try this without looking it up (since I assume that would defeat the purpose), so bear with me.

I know the News Hour is owned/produced/something by some conglomerate that also owns Starzz, QVC, and has some involvement with News Corp. As for the BBC... well... yeah. For the random stuff that shows up on Google News or regular TV, conglomerates, the lot of them.

a. What websites do you visit daily or weekly? - F13, TVWOP, IMDB, PA, CTRL-ALT-DEL, PVP, Nodwick, Giantitp, icnahascheezburger.com, darrenmantle.com, google
b. What shows or stations do you watch? - MNF, Hockey night in Canada, Jeopardy, Mythbusters, TSN, Discovery, Food Network, Monday night Raw (lol), Dexter, Heroes, BSG, Deadwood, etc, etc... I watch a lot of TV
c. What radio stations do you listen to? - Lucy, Squee, CFOX, TEAM1040
d. What video games do you play? - Forza 2, Sims 2, Oblivion, Bioshock, Dark Messiah, NHL 2k7, Catan, Bomberman, want a few dozen more?
e. What are the last few movies you have seen? - Stardust, Flushed Away, Battle Royale,
f. Who are your favorite bands, comedians, artists? - AC/DC, Metalica (old), Nirvana, Beatles, Evanescence, Jakalope, Zepelin - Russel Peters, Rowan Atkinson, Steven Wright
g. Where do you get your news? - Online
h. Do you subscribe and or read any newspapers or magazines (online or print)? - not currently


Followup - for Radio - Corus Entertainment owns the local staions, XM on sat.

1. The Queen
2. The Vatican
3. The Gettys
4. The Rothchilds
5. Colonel Sanders, before he went tits-up

The Illuminati and The Jews is what I had always assumed...

a. f13 mostly. A bunch of other random stuff as it occurs to me.

b. Science educational tv, DIY how-to programming, political humor.

c. I do not listen to radio, Clear Channel has killed it. Maybe some NPR or Little Steven's show if I'm tired of the tapes in my truck.

d. Heh. Bioshock and EQ2 currently, we'll skip the long list.

e. Just watched Anchorman again. Don't watch a lot of movies.

f. Bands: too many to list. Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Juinor Wells, Mars Volta, Rush, Willie Nelson, it's a massive list. Comedians: I like a lot, but George Carlin is The Man. Artists, I tend to like a variety of non-modern artists...anything that's not Warholly or Pollacky. More classical fine art, less modern art.

g. I like news aggregators like Google News that present a variety of sources. I try to find sources with an opposite bias of the news we are bombarded with by corporate america and try to suss out the truth in between.

h. I read the local paper daily. I sub to some guitar magazines and some tech magazines I have gift subs to for the library (I started a whole movement to gift subscribing from the staff to fill out niches). I also sub to Cook's Illustrated and my fiancee subs to Consumer Reports. We like both and they're ad-free.

Follow-up: no. I always assume any source I'm reading is heavily biased and try to balance it by reading opposing sources. I try to reflect my belief that you should always consider a situation from all sides. I don't watch mainstream US media, except for Olbermann, if you can consider that mainstream, it's more infotainment imo.

Hey, wanted to thank everyone who responded one last time.  I got a B on the paper, woo!

Grats.. but if you weren't slackin on here, that could have been an A!   :-D

It has taken we Rosicrucians hundreds of years to achieve this illusion.

Actually, it is lizards.  No, seriously, alien lizards (http://endie.net/cs/blogs/endie/archive/2006/08/02/David_Icke_is_madder_than_ever.aspx).  David Icke has been fighting to let the world know for several years.