Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Audience
- Frankfurt School
- hypodermic needle theory: think audiences
might be directly influenced by media
products
- Richard Dyer
- thinks that audiences want media
products that offer them 'Utopian
Solutions' to their problems
- from fragmentation to community
- from manipulation to transparency
- from scarcity to abundance
- Blumer and Katz
- think that audiences want media products that
gratify particular needs
- Andrew Goodwin
- thinks that audiences are often
played in the position of a voyeur
within music videos (watching
someone)
- the use of close ups is
important to help the
audience appreciate
the "star persona" of
the lead singer
- Pluralists
- Stuart Hall
- decoding media texts
- thinks the audience will react in different ways to a media product
- Preferred
- Negotiated
- Oppositional
- encoding media texts