Media Studies A-Level
Audience positioning
What Audience positioning means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Audience positioning
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Reference: AQA
How the knowledge shaped by narration shapes the viewer's response.
Topics that use Audience positioning
- Narratology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience positioning through narrative
- Causality and event linkage
- Chronology versus causality
- Diegesis
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sound
- Narrating voice and source
- Narration
- Narrative function
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