Thursday, 8 October 2009

Audience Theory

There are three Audience Theory that we can apply to help understand the relationship between text and audience.

Effects Model

The text has an influence upon the audience.The audience are passive and powerless to resist and prevent the influence of the text. The power lies within the message of the text. This model is also called the Hypodermic Model. The messages in the media texts are like injections, its a syringe-like media.

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