Audience reception
What Audience reception means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The effect on audiences who may hold different views, since different audiences may read a text differently rather than all accepting the dominant ideology.
How different people read the same product, including preferred, negotiated and oppositional readings.
Topics that use Audience reception
- Subject content (AQA A-Level)
- Theories of representation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Representation
- Audience readings
- Audience targeting and reception
- Audience understanding
- Audiences and distribution in a digital age
- Consent versus coercion
- Constructed reality
- Distortion and omission
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