This document discusses several theories of audience reception of media texts:
1. The Hypodermic Needle Model suggests audiences passively receive information from media without questioning or processing it.
2. The Two-Step Flow theory proposes information flows from media to "opinion leaders" who then communicate it to their social groups.
3. Uses and Gratifications theory views audiences as active, choosing media to fulfill certain needs like diversion, social interaction, or information.
4. Reception Theory examines how individual factors like gender or class influence how audiences interpret and make meaning from media texts.
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Research Proposal: Impact of Social Media
Quiana Latham
Argosy University
September 13, 2018
Research Proposal: Impact of Social Media
This paper will be focusing on the impact of the media on the youth through the content they produce especially through social media that are specifically designed to be consumed by the young generation. Comment by Barclay, Tammy: Where is the thesis? This assignment is NOT writing a paper but creating an outline. It is a plan for developing the actual research paper. You should have 5 headings: thesis, explanation, subpoints, objections, reply to objections.
If this is the thesis, it is too wordy and does not take a stance. Remember, the goal is to take a stance on a topic you are going to work to prove.
The age bracket for this involves teenagers from the age of 15 to young adults who are not more than 23 years old. Some of the factors that the paper will entail is things such as what limits should there be in the contents provided for people who fall under this age bracket, is the content too explicit or is it okay if the youth is exposed to such materials and information at younger ages on social medial sites? Does the content consumed by the youth affect their personal growth and perception of things in terms of physical and emotional growth? Where should the media draw the line between what they produce for young adults and the youth who still cannot make decisions for themselves? The above questions give an overview of how the media sometimes produce content that may intentionally or unintentionally be harmful to the youth all in the name of performing their role of informing, educating and entertaining. Comment by Barclay, Tammy: Careful with run-on sentences. Comment by Barclay, Tammy: You should be explaining what you expect to cover in the research paper. In this section, there should not be questions.
SUBPOINTS: The key objectives that this paper will focus on will be determining whether social media is really doing its job in terms of sourcing content that is healthy for public consumption or does it just produce content for the sake of it without really putting into considerations to what extent it affects the youth. I will also find out whether the youths find the content appealing to them or do they fund some of the things being too much for them. This way I will be able to determine whether content has negative impacts on them in terms of their behavioural patterns that they may have developed as a result of the content they consumed from social media. I will also find out what criteria social media sites like Instagram and Facebook follow or rather use when deciding what to publish and what to leave out. I will delve into knowing whether the media have some stipulated guidelines that they follow up to per when producing content. Comment by Barclay, Tammy: Use the required headings assigned in the directions. It will help you stay on task .
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3. 3. What is your favourite music genre?
Rap
Pop
Rock
Alternative
Ethnic/Reggae
4. What are you looking for in an artist?
Looks
Dancing Skills
Glamour
Someone you can identify with
Someone loyal to the genre you prefer
4. 5. Where do you look for music?
Internet
Stores
Radio
TV
6. What kind of music videos do you prefer?
Narrative Based
Concept Based
Performance Based
I don’t know
5. 7. What are your favourite themes in a music video
and for lyrics?
8. You prefer certain songs/genres because of:
The Music Quality
The Lyrics and meaning
The Tune
Other
Thanks For Your Time
7. So since we found our target audience are female age 10-19 , we decided to focus more on their questionnaires in order to find what
they liked.
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Internet
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10. What are your favourite themes in a music video
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Glamour/High Life
Social and Political Themes
Love
Empowering
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12. So, based on the results we got for our survey and by comparing it to similar
researches we decided the following:
1. Since the majority of people who prefer pop and alternative are females, we
decided to peek a female protagonist to perform the song.
2. Looks and Glamour are secondary based on our survey, however being loyal to
the genre and appealing were far more important. So, we picked an everyday girl so
the audience can identify with her, also because she is quite young we can promote
her as a new talent devote to the pop/alternative genre.
3. The majority of people look for music through online platforms and since is way
cheaper we decided to run our hole promotion campaign online.
4. The majority of our target audience show preference for concept based music
videos and narrative based videos come secondary. Thus, we decided to have a
concept ( image issues, low self esteem, cyber bullying, self harm and self
discovery) which is self empowering and communicating strong messages and
addressing issues that many teenagers go through their lives. Also, this applies to
the requests we had for music and lyrics quality.
13. Audience Theory.
1. The Hypodermic Needle
Model
Dating from the 1920s, this theory
was the first attempt to explain
how mass audiences might react
to mass media. It is a crude
model and suggests that
audiences passively receive the
information transmitted via a
media text, without any attempt
on their part to process or
challenge the data. Don't forget
that this theory was developed in
an age when the mass media
were still fairly new - radio and
cinema were less than two
decades old. Governments had
just discovered the power of
advertising to communicate a
message, and
produced propaganda to try and
sway populaces to their way of
thinking. This was particularly
rampant in Europe during the
First World War and its
aftermath.
Basically, the Hypodermic Needle
Model suggests that the
information from a text passes
into the mass consciousness of
the audience unmediated, i.e.
the experience, intelligence and
opinion of an individual are not
relevant to the reception of the
text. This theory suggests that, as
an audience, we are manipulated
by the creators of media texts,
and that our behavior and
thinking might be easily changed
by media-makers. It assumes that
the audience
are passive and heterogeneous.
This theory is still quoted
during moral panics by parents,
politicians and pressure groups,
and is used to explain why certain
14. 2. Two-Step Flow
The Hypodermic model
quickly proved too clumsy for
media researchers seeking to
more precisely explain the
relationship between audience
and text. As the mass media
became an essential part of
life in societies around the
world and did NOT reduce
populations to a mass of
unthinking drones, a more
sophisticated explanation was
sought.
Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard
Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet
analyzed the voters' decision-
making processes during a
1940 presidential election
campaign and published their
results in a paper called The
People's Choice. Their
findings suggested that the
information does not flow
directly from the text into the
minds of its audience
unmediated but is filtered
through "opinion leaders" who
then communicate it to their
less active associates, over
whom they have influence.
The audience then mediate
the information received
directly from the media with
the ideas and thoughts
expressed by the opinion
leaders, thus being influenced
not by a direct process, but by
a two step flow. This
diminished the power of the
media in the eyes of
researchers, and caused them
to conclude that social factors
were also important in the way
15. 3. Uses & Gratifications
During the 1960s, as the first
generation to grow up with
television became grown ups, it
became increasingly apparent to
media theorists that audiences
made choices about what they
did when consuming texts. Far
from being a passive mass,
audiences were made up of
individuals who actively
consumed texts for different
reasons and in different ways. In
1948 Lasswell suggested that
media texts had the following
functions for individuals and
society:
surveillance
correlation
entertainment
cultural transmission
Researchers Blulmer and Katz
expanded this theory and
published their own in 1974,
stating that individuals might
choose and use a text for the
following purposes (ie uses and
gratifications):
Diversion - escape from everyday
problems and routine.
Personal Relationships - using
the media for emotional and other
interaction, eg) substituting soap
operas for family life
Personal Identity - finding yourself
reflected in texts, learning
behavior and values from texts
Surveillance - Information which
could be useful for living eg)
weather reports, financial news,
holiday bargains
Since then, the list of Uses and
16. 4. Reception Theory
Extending the concept of
an active audience still
further, in the 1980s and
1990s a lot of work was
done on the way
individuals received and
interpreted a text, and how
their individual
circumstances (gender,
class, age, ethnicity)
affected their reading.
This work was based on
Stuart Hall's
encoding/decoding model
of the relationship between
text and audience - the text
is encoded by the
producer, and decoded by
the reader, and there may
be major differences
between two different
readings of the same code.
However, by using
recognised codes and
conventions, and by
drawing upon audience
expectations relating to
aspects such as genre and
use of stars, the producers
can position the audience
and thus create a certain
17. Source for the theories:
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/alevkeyc
oncepts/alevelkeycon.php?pageID=audience
Editor's Notes
So since we found our target audience are female age 10-19 , we decided to focus more on their questionnaires in order to find what they liked.