Media Studies A-Level
Audience position
What Audience position means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Audience position
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The position texts can place the audience in, such as that of an unseen observer watching others who are unaware of being watched.
Topics that use Audience position
- Feminist theories (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Achieved equality as a claim
- Application of theory to media texts and industries
- Critical evaluation of media framing
- Individual choice versus structural inequality
- Male gaze
- Normalisation of male authority
- Patriarchy
- Post-feminism
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