Thursday, 23 June 2016

Audience Theory: Indirect Media Effects

David Gauntlett: Web 2.0
This is the second stage of the internet, it's has more user generated content and is more advanced than just having a plain webpage with information. It has enhanced the growth of social media and has got audiences interacting more.

Prosumer - Both a consumer and producer of media texts, this is seen as a step beyond the consumers of traditional film trailers.

Audience's now are prosumers as they watch the films but also share content related to films and then are distribution this information to other consumers

Examples:
Hashtags # 
Links
Buying tickets
Social media pages
Shares - We, the audience, make things popular

Disadvantages:
Created cultural chaos
Celebrates the 'Power of active users' ignoring the commercial structures that help to shape those powers
Creates a 'cult of the amateur' that devalues the professional
Removes gate keepers, talent and expertise are devalued in favour of those who shout the loudest

Reception Theory
This is a version of the audience response to a media text. It's the idea that some messages have a range of possible meanings; some are intended by the producers, some are read into by the audience.

Encoding - Originator of a message has a point they want to get across

Decoding - The audience viewing the media text will decode the message in a variety of ways depending on:

  • Social background
  • Context
  • Pre-existing beliefs 

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