Thursday, December 2, 2010

Different models

The effects model: The hypodermic model. This sees the audience as duped and doped. Media is the opium of the masses and suggests that it can be hyponotise the populace.

The Gratifications model: Power to the people. Audiences can create subversive and deviant readings other than those intended by institutions of production. Texts are used to gratify needs and interests.

Effects studies objectives:

Social, moral and political objective:
To measure the power of media technologies to affect how individuals think, feel and act.

Commercial objective:
To measure the effectiveness of advertising and publicity campaigns.

No comments:

Post a Comment