Media Studies A-Level
Audience as producer
What Audience as producer means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Audience as producer
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The shift from passive consumption to participation, where people produce and share media as well as consume it.
Topics that use Audience as producer
Related terms
- 'End of audience'
- Cognitive surplus
- Decline of professional gatekeeping
- Lowered barriers to media production
- Mass amateurisation
- Amateur producers at scale
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