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Audience theory

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who- 18-28 informed, educated males

why-PIES

How are the audiences targeted?

Uses and gratifications

Audience pleasures

Personal identification= if your parents divorced and a show talks about divorce you identify with it

Information=social media, newspaper, TV

Entertainment= music, shows, on all the time

Social interaction= you can talk about it the next day

Audience

-an audience is a collection of people who read or consume any media text

- fragmented audience= the division of audiences into smaller groups due to the variety of media outlets.

-industries use adverts to make money

Types of audience

- mass audience- those who consume mainstream or popular texts such as soaps or sitcoms

- nice audience- much smaller but very influential. small, select groups of people with a very unique interest

-audience can be divided by social class

pyschographic

aspirers= seek status, materialistic

main streamers= seek security, domestic, conventional

succeders= seek control, strong jobs, confidence

resigned= seeks survival, rigid and authorization values

explorers= seeks discovery, energy, individualism

strugglers= seeks escape, alienated, disorganized

reformers= seeks enlightenment, freedom of restrictions and personal growth

demographic profiling

A- higher management

B- middle management

C1- office supervisors

C2-skilled manual workers

D-semi skilled

E- unemployed, students, pensioners, casual workers

When you look at a media task ask yourself....

1) which category of audience following media target?

2) how do they target them and why do they use/ enjoy them?

what affects they way in which an audience responds to a media text....

Audience response= cultural experience, age, ethnicity, gender, situated culture, historical competence

Stuart hall: reception theory

dominant-believes it straight away


oranges are great---------intended message---------------------------negotiated- ask questions,mixed feelings

oppositional- doesn't agree at all

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