Audience participation
What Audience participation means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Audiences are no longer passive receivers but produce, share and circulate content, as in fan production or citizen journalism.
Users publish, comment, remix and share rather than mainly consuming pages produced by others.
Topics that use Audience participation
- 'End of audience' theories (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- 'End of audience'
- Citizen journalism
- Convergence
- Cross-platform audience behaviour
- Gatekeeping and platform power
- Producer–audience boundary
- Prosumer
- Technological convergence
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