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Audience Theories

Audience Positioning

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Objectives

• To understand the relationship between the audience and the media text

• To understand the position that the audience will take dependent on certain factors

• To understand how audience are constructed by media producers

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Past Paper Summer 2011

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Audience Positioning

• All media text have a series of encoded signs and messages

• The audience decode these messages• Different audiences will decode them

differently• Media texts and the industries are acutely

aware of their audiences

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Key Points

• The relationship between media and audience is fluent and changing

• Audiences are not a mass and their responses are complex and sophisticated

• Audiences are made up of individuals• Either PASSIVE OR ACTIVE

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Active Audience

• This audience responds to and interprets the media text in different ways and actively engages with the messages.

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Passive Audience• This is an audience that does not engage

actively with the text. They do not question the text and therefore accept the preferred reading without challenge. They therefore might be more affected by the messages contained within the text.

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Technical Codes• A close up and/or music can help the

audience feel sympathy towards a character

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Mode of AddressMode of Address

Audience relationship

Audience Role Example

Direct Semi-Formal(Informative)

Acquaintance/Client

Consumer Affairs i.e. Watchdog

Objective Formal (but equal)

Listener Documentaryi.e. Wildlife Docs.

Authoritative Formal/ Submissive

Learner TV News

Familiar Friendly Friend Game Show/ Docu Soap

Familiar (Participant)

Illusion of Social Interaction

Participant-egging on contestants or taking part

Game Shows i.e. Who wants to be millionaire/ Big Brother/ Pop Idol

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Task

• What is the Mode of Address for the following texts?

• Why?

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READINGS….

• ENCODERS (Producers) create texts with a PREFERRED READING (the meaning they WANT the audience to take from it) which the audience then DECODE.

• However audiences may not take the preferred reading, they may however take an OPPOSITIONAL or NEGOTIATED

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• PREFERRED READING: When the audience accepts the dominant reading of the text. This is usually if the texts reflects the ideas and beliefs of the audience.

(I.E. Readers of the Daily Mail will broadly agree with the papers stance on issues like asylum seekers and young people)

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• OPPOSITIONAL READING: When someone makes a conscious rejection or subversion of the preferred meaning.

(I.E. a bank robber may reject the concept that the police are the “goodies” in THE BILL as they believe their reasons for committing crime are fair and they connect with the criminal on screen rather than the heroes and heroines of the Police force.)

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• NEGOTIATED READINGS: When someone understands the meaning but it doesn’t relate to them so it is of no interest to them to decode it.

( A teenager who is not interested in Politics watching A Question time discussing the issues of Junior Doctors may well understand the points of views being raised but has no interest in the matter therefore they will not be persuaded or dissuaded to either POV being raised in the programme.)

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Look at the following media texts and who would take the preferred/oppositional/negotiated reading?

Why?

Task

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You are going to produce a new television programme.

Decide on your TARGET audience?

How are you going to attract your TARGET audience?

What Channel would your programme be broadcast on and why?

Who might take an oppositional reading to your programme?

Put together a short presentation with pictures answering the questions above.