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Audience reception theory was developed by British sociologist Stuart Hall in the 1980s and 1990s. It examines how audiences actively interpret and make meaning from media texts rather than passively receiving messages. Hall proposed that the same event can be encoded in multiple ways, messages contain multiple possible readings, and understanding is complex. He argued that media typically promote a "preferred reading" but audiences can also adopt "negotiated" or "oppositional" readings depending on their social positions and how the preferred reading relates to their lives. Audience reception theory focuses on qualitative audience research to understand active audience interpretations.
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This theory focuses on the idea that audiences are active in interpreting media rather than passive. Research in the 1980s and 1990s looked at how individuals receive and understand texts differently based on their personal characteristics like gender, age, class, and ethnicity. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model proposed that a text is encoded by its producer but decoded by audiences, who may interpret it differently. Hall identified three potential reception models: dominant/hegemonic readings that accept the preferred meaning, negotiated readings that modify the meaning somewhat, and oppositional readings that reject the preferred meaning using an alternative perspective.
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This theory focuses on the idea that audiences are active in interpreting media rather than passive. Research in the 1980s and 1990s looked at how individuals receive and understand texts differently based on their personal characteristics like gender, age, class, and ethnicity. Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model proposed that a text is encoded by its producer but decoded by audiences, who may interpret it differently. Hall identified three potential reception models: dominant/hegemonic readings that accept the preferred meaning, negotiated readings that modify the meaning somewhat, and oppositional readings that reject the preferred meaning using an alternative perspective.
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Stuart Hall developed an approach to audience analysis in the 1970s that considered how media texts are encoded with meaning by producers and then decoded by audiences. Hall identified three types of audience decoding: dominant/preferred, where the audience agrees with the producer's message; negotiated, where the audience accepts or refines parts of the message; and oppositional, where the audience recognizes but rejects the dominant meaning for their own reasons.
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1) Early theories viewed audiences as passive, believing all messages without thinking critically (the "hypodermic needle" effect). This underestimated audiences' abilities.
2) Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model sees the audience as active - they make their own interpretations depending on factors like identity and opinions. Texts have no set meaning.
3) Reception theory focuses on the audience role in interpreting texts. Hall identified preferred, negotiated, and oppositional readings audiences can have.
4) Later theories see audiences as even more active, selectively engaging with media and picking aspects to incorporate into their identities (the "pick and mix"
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Stuart Hall proposed three ways that audiences can respond to texts:
1) Preferred/dominant readings where the audience interprets the text as intended.
2) Negotiated readings where the audience agrees with some parts but not others.
3) Oppositional/resistant readings where the audience's beliefs conflict with how the text portrays something.
This means a text cannot have a static meaning since audiences can interpret it differently based on their experiences.
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- How audiences are affected by media texts according to media effects theories versus being active in using media to fulfill needs as per uses and gratifications theory.
- How audience consumption has changed from mass audiences of broadcast media to narrowcast and peer-to-peer sharing as audiences fragment across multiple platforms.
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The document discusses different theories around how audiences engage with media texts, ranging from passive to active models of consumption. It describes the passive "hypodermic needle" effects theory from the 1920s, which viewed audiences as empty vessels absorbing media messages. More recent theories see audiences as active, such as Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model where people make their own interpretations based on their experiences. The document also discusses reception theory and the idea that audiences play an active role in how they interpret and make meaning from media texts.
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2) David Morley identified three types of audience readings: dominant, negotiated, and oppositional.
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3) Oppositional reading: The audience rejects the producer's intended meaning and creates their own interpretation, often opposing the producer's messages and ideology.
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1. Reception theory examines how audiences receive and make meaning from media texts. It emphasizes that meaning comes from the interaction between the text and the reader/viewer, not from the text itself.
2. David Morley applied reception theory to television with his Nationwide Project, which found that people from different social groups interpreted the same program differently based on their positions.
3. Uses and gratifications theory posits that audiences are active in choosing media to fulfill certain needs, such as escape, social interaction, identity, and information.
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Stuart Hall argued that audiences can have dominant, negotiated, or oppositional readings of media texts based on their cultural identity and ideology. David Morley conducted research using Hall's theories, including a famous study of audience reactions to the BBC program Nationwide. The study found different responses based on participants' backgrounds, supporting Hall's ideas about encoded and decoded meanings.
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Stuart Hall developed an approach to audience analysis in the 1970s that considered how media texts are encoded with meaning by producers and then decoded by audiences. Hall identified three types of audience decoding: dominant/preferred, where the audience agrees with the producer's message; negotiated, where the audience accepts or refines parts of the message; and oppositional, where the audience recognizes but rejects the dominant meaning for their own reasons.
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2) Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model sees the audience as active - they make their own interpretations depending on factors like identity and opinions. Texts have no set meaning.
3) Reception theory focuses on the audience role in interpreting texts. Hall identified preferred, negotiated, and oppositional readings audiences can have.
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Reception theory states that media texts are encoded by producers with intended messages and values, but audiences decode texts in different ways based on their own experiences and perspectives, which may not match the producer's intended meaning. According to Stuart Hall, audiences can have dominant, oppositional, or negotiated readings. A dominant reading accepts the producer's preferred meaning, while an oppositional reading rejects this in favor of the audience's own interpretation. A negotiated reading is a compromise that incorporates some of both the producer and audience perspectives.
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Reception theory focuses on how the audience perceives and interacts with a work of art or media. It was originally a method for literary criticism but can be applied to other art forms like film. Reception theory explains that meaning comes from the interaction between the audience and the work, not from the work itself. The theory is relevant when creating media for both passive and active audiences, who will have different levels of engagement. Uses and gratification theory also examines audience reception but looks at why people choose certain media and what needs they fulfill, such as identity, education, entertainment, or social interaction. Understanding audience reception is important for creating successful products targeted at both active and passive groups.
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Stuart Hall proposed three ways that audiences can respond to texts:
1) Preferred/dominant readings where the audience interprets the text as intended.
2) Negotiated readings where the audience agrees with some parts but not others.
3) Oppositional/resistant readings where the audience's beliefs conflict with how the text portrays something.
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- How audiences are affected by media texts according to media effects theories versus being active in using media to fulfill needs as per uses and gratifications theory.
- How audience consumption has changed from mass audiences of broadcast media to narrowcast and peer-to-peer sharing as audiences fragment across multiple platforms.
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The document discusses different theories around how audiences engage with media texts, ranging from passive to active models of consumption. It describes the passive "hypodermic needle" effects theory from the 1920s, which viewed audiences as empty vessels absorbing media messages. More recent theories see audiences as active, such as Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model where people make their own interpretations based on their experiences. The document also discusses reception theory and the idea that audiences play an active role in how they interpret and make meaning from media texts.
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2. The Two Step Flow theory (1940s) found influence comes indirectly through opinion leaders who filter messages to their social groups.
3. Uses and Gratifications theory (1960s onward) sees audiences as active, using media to fulfill personal needs like diversion, social interaction, identity.
4. Reception Theory (1980s-90s) expanded on active audiences, finding meaning depends on individual viewer's context like gender, class, ethnicity. Produc
Audience
This document discusses several theories of how audiences interact with and are influenced by media texts:
1. The Hypodermic Needle Model (1920s) viewed audiences as passive receivers, influenced directly by media messages without question.
2. The Two Step Flow theory (1940s) found influence comes indirectly through opinion leaders who filter messages to their social groups.
3. Uses and Gratifications theory (1960s onward) sees audiences as active, using media to fulfill personal needs like diversion, social interaction, identity.
4. Reception Theory (1980s-90s) expanded on active audiences, finding meaning depends on individual viewer's context like gender, class, ethnicity. Produc
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This document discusses theories around media audiences. It covers:
- Target audiences and how producers try to create audiences
- Dominant, negotiated, and oppositional readings that audiences can have
- That meaning comes from the interaction between text and audience, not the text alone
- Factors like class, gender, experience that influence audience interpretation
- Criticisms of early effects models that saw audiences as passive and directly influenced
- Later views that audiences are active, interpret media selectively, and have their own power
Encoding decoding model
Stuart Hall published an influential 1973 paper called "Encoding/Decoding" that challenged assumptions about how media messages are produced, circulated, and consumed. The paper proposed that meaning is not fixed by the sender, messages are never transparent, and audiences are not passive recipients. It argued that audiences play an active role in interpreting media messages based on their own experiences rather than just accepting the intended meaning.
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This document summarizes several key theories in media studies:
1) Active audience theory which holds that audiences can understand media messages differently based on their own experiences and can critically analyze or reject messages.
2) Uses and gratification theory which examines how individuals use mass media to fulfill personal needs such as entertainment or information.
3) Obstinate audience theory which found that audiences filter and distort messages to fit their own views rather than passively accepting one-way influence.
4) Cultural studies theories which emphasize the active role of audiences in interpreting media texts based on their social positions and backgrounds.
Stuart hall
Stuart Hall proposed a model of encoding and decoding for how audiences interpret mass media texts in different ways based on their social positions. The model included three ways of reading: the dominant reading, where the audience fully accepts the preferred reading; the negotiated reading, where the audience broadly accepts but sometimes modifies the reading; and the oppositional reading, where the audience's social position leads them to reject the dominant reading. Hall was also concerned with how mass media broadcasts dominant ideologies and positions audiences to create and define issues of public concern.
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- 3. What does Stuart say? Audience reception theory has come to be widely used as a way of characterizing the wave of audience research which occurred within communications and cultural studies during the 1980s and 1990s. This work has adopted a "culturalist" perspective, has tended to use qualitative(non numerical statistics) methods of research and has tended to be concerned, one way or another, with exploring the active choices, uses and interpretations made of media materials, by their consumers. British Sociologist Stuart Hall and his communication model first revealed in an essay titled “Encoding/Decoding."
- 4. Hall proposed a new model of mass communication which highlighted the importance of active interpretation within relevant codes. Hall's model of communication moved away from the view that the media had the power to directly cause a certain behaviour in an individual, while at the same time holding onto the role of media as an agenda- setting function. Hall's model put forward three central premises: 1) the same event can be encoded in more than one way; 2) the message contains more than one possible reading; and 3) understanding the message can be a problematic process, regardless of how natural it may seem.
- 5. Halls’ ideas continued. In "Encoding/Decoding", Hall addressed the issue of how people make sense of media texts, and presented three hypothetical methods of decoding. Hall often used examples involving televised media to explain his ideas. Hall argued that the dominant ideology is typically inscribed as the 'preferred reading' in a media text, but that this is not automatically adopted by readers.The social situations of readers/viewers/listeners may lead them to adopt different stances. 'Dominant' readings are produced by those whose social situation favours the preferred reading; 'negotiated' readings are produced by those who inflect the preferred reading to take account of their social position; and 'oppositional' readings are produced by those whose social position puts them into direct conflict with the preferred reading.