The document discusses the importance of understanding your audience as a media producer. It states that all media texts are made with an audience in mind and your production should also have a target audience. It emphasizes the need to understand your audience's demographics, including factors like age, gender, class, ethnicity, location and income level. Understanding your audience allows you to ensure your text will appeal to and engage them. It also discusses several theories about how audiences receive and respond to media texts, including the hypodermic needle model which suggests media can directly influence audiences, and the two-step flow model which proposes ideas are filtered through opinion leaders.
37. These theories help us to
deconstruct the
relationship between
audience and text
38. The Hypodermic Needle Model
Sometimes referred to as the Silver Bullet
Model (Schram1982), this is the idea that
the mass media are so powerful that they
can 'inject¡® their messages into the
audience.
39. The Hypodermic Needle Model
Sometimes referred to as the Silver Bullet
Model (Schram1982), this is the idea that
the mass media are so powerful that they
can 'inject¡® their messages into the
audience.
40. The Hypodermic Needle Model
Sometimes referred to as the Silver Bullet
Model (Schram1982), this is the idea that
the mass media are so powerful that they
can 'inject¡® their messages into the
audience.
43. The Hypodermic Needle Model
The idea that an audience can be precisely
targeted by a ¡°magic bullet¡±. Then they
irresistibly fall down when hit by the bullet.
44. The Hypodermic Needle Model
The idea that an audience can be precisely
targeted by a ¡°magic bullet¡±. Then they
irresistibly fall down when hit by the bullet.
In brief - it is the idea that the makers of
media messages can get us to do whatever
they want us to do.
46. The Two Step Flow Model
? A more sophisticated idea...
47. The Two Step Flow Model
? A more sophisticated idea...
? Ideas are filtered through opinion leaders
48. The Two Step Flow Model
? A more sophisticated idea...
? Ideas are filtered through opinion leaders
49. The Two Step Flow Model
? A more sophisticated idea...
? Ideas are filtered through opinion leaders
? This waters down the message
diminishing the power of the media
50. The Two Step Flow Model
? A more sophisticated idea...
? Ideas are filtered through opinion leaders
? This waters down the message
diminishing the power of the media
51. What is the third theory?
Please review these theories and research this for
yourself.
Make sure there is content on your blog to show
that you have thought about your audience and
understand these theories