Friday, 18 November 2011

Audience Theories

Why do audiences choose to consume certain texts?

How do they consume texts?

What happens when they consume texts?

The Effects Model


- The consumption of media text has an effect or influence upon the audience
- It is normally considered that this effect is negative
- Audience are passive and powerless to prevent the influence
- The power lies with the message of the text

The Hypodermic Model


- Here, the messages in media texts are injected into the audiences by the powerful, syringe-like, media
- Audience is powerless to resist
- therefore the media works like a drug and the audience is drugged, addicted, doped and duped

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