Media Studies A-Level
Shared assumptions across a mass audience
What Shared assumptions across a mass audience means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Similar assumptions about crime, gender, authority or risk that heavy viewers come to hold through cumulative exposure.
Topics that use Shared assumptions across a mass audience
- Cultivation theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cultivated assumptions about the real world
- Cultivation theory
- Cumulative exposure and cultivation
- Distinction between standardisation and mainstreaming
- Media influence
- Television as storyteller
- Cultural meanings and values
- Culture and norms
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