audience effect theory
1. Passive audience This is the view that audiences take in information from the media that has the same effect on everybody. 2. Active audience This is the more modern and generally accepted view that audiences interact with the media they consume. 3. Hypodermic needle theory This is the suggestion that audiences are always passive and therefore take the intended message from the producer as if it was injected into their minds. 4. Information\ Surveillance Match of the day why: The match of the day gives you information about whats happening in football and the scores of football matches. Indentity Dragon's Den why: The Dragon's Den gives you information about peoples identity and ideas. Diversion\entertainment Hollyoaks why: Hollyoaks has a lot of drama and entertains the audience by having murders being unsolved. Relationships H