Media studies

According to the book, The Essential Guide to Rhetoric, audience is defined as “individuals with interests and biases who make up the audience, that is dependent upon the situation that the audience is in and the obstacles faced by the speaker when it comes to proper timing”. Audience is a major key factor when it comes to rhetorical communication, the attendance of the audience enhances the role of the rhetor and supports how the message presented, is discerned by the audience. Audiences also…

certain props and costumes so that their episodes can be seen more authentic as possible, this module gave me the impression that fans can dedicate almost worship the discourse in discussion and gave me a real insight into the world of fandom and who media convergence and collective intelligence can…

Eight Essential Terms in Writing Audience: An audience is a person or group of individuals to whom the writer is trying to address. A writer uses a particular style of language, content, and tone according to what the audience knows. In the book, Writing about Writing, Keith Grant-Davie wrote a piece which discussed audiences. He explains the precise meaning of an audience as, "1) Any people who happen to hear or read a discourse, 2) a set of readers or listeners who form part of an external…

Immersive theatre seeks to give experience to its audience by involving and surrounding them with and in the production at hand. Wondermart, a 2007 English audio-performance piece written by Silvia Mercuriali in collaboration with Matt Rudkin and Tommaso Perego, uses two predominant strategies to immerse the audience of single listeners — inhabiting and awareness. The techniques entailed in these strategies are inherent to the immersive style; placing audience members inside a character,…

The subsequent essay aims to discern the fundamental components of feminist media studies. Additionally, it intends to demonstrate how two particular critical essays respect and adhere to this specific form of media-based criticism. In order to do so, first, the essay will introduce the general characteristics of feminist media studies. Second, the two articles will be compared to distinguish the similarities and diverging points between the two pieces of criticism. Third, the essay will be…

Fan Hughes Personal Statement a. Why do you intend to pursue a PhD or an MA in Communication Studies? Not long after graduating from the University of Georgia in May of 2013, I moved to Wyoming and began working within one of the worlds largest nearly enact ecosystems in the world, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. I was inspired by this area on a camping trip as a teenager and quickly made a resolution to live in this breathtaking place as soon as I was able. Since 2013, I’ve worked to…

special guests, they included lectures on the political economy of communication (Professors Robert McChesney and Amanda Ciafone, for example) and on international communication research (Professor Angharad Valdivia) that situated media…

education. Then one winter night, while I was studying for finals, FIMS intrigued me once again. Upon receiving an email about the new graduate program: Master of Media in Journalism and Communications, I was immediately relieved. I looked at the program website and realized it combined all of the things I was interested in: communications, social media, digital production, among many other topics. This program also allowed me the opportunity to gain real-word experience through an internship…

communication research has commonly looked into is what impacts media can implicate onto an audience. But as explored by Blumler (1974) through flipping the focus of study onto audience uses of media rather than media effects it has allowed a different study to be explored, which is set as the uses and gratifications research. As discussed by Rubin (1986), uses and gratification research looks into the media audience’s uses and the needs of certain media, as well as the sociological need and…

in the 1940s. This theory states that media influence, the information we receive from the mass media, often works in two stages. Firstly, media content like facts and views are picked up by opinion leaders in different groups. They can be friends, workmates, movie stars, politicians or anyone else who is considered influential and they usually have the respect of opinion followers due to their status in social class. Next, these leaders will discuss the media content with and influence their…