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The word [[Audience|audience]], in the sense of a group of assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting, is used generally in South Africa, while spectators is reserved for sporting events and listeners for radio.  (In [[Afrikaans]] the term used, [[Gehoor|gehoor]] , also means something along the lines of "to have listened", despite the fact one is talking of audio-visual performance forms and media).
 
  
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The word '''[[audience]]''', though strictly speaking meaning "a group of listeners", is broadly used in South Africa in the sense of a group of assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting. The  term '''[[spectators]]''' however is reserved for sporting events, the term '''[[listeners]]''' for radio and the term '''[[viewers]]''' for TV. 
  
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The [[Afrikaans]] equivalent term '''[[gehoor]]''', like the English term refers to hearing, strictly speaking meaning "to have heard", but is nevertheless used for theatrical performances of all kinds, sometimes also for other forms of entertainment. However, radio listeners are more usually called '''[[luisteraars]]''' and viewers of TV and film as '''[[kykers]]'''
  
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_audience_theory
 
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Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception  
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Susan Bennett 1990. ''Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception''. London and New York: Routledge.
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Audience: General definition

As used in South Africa

The word audience, though strictly speaking meaning "a group of listeners", is broadly used in South Africa in the sense of a group of assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting. The term spectators however is reserved for sporting events, the term listeners for radio and the term viewers for TV.

The Afrikaans equivalent term gehoor, like the English term refers to hearing, strictly speaking meaning "to have heard", but is nevertheless used for theatrical performances of all kinds, sometimes also for other forms of entertainment. However, radio listeners are more usually called luisteraars and viewers of TV and film as kykers

Theatre audiences

The nature and role of the audience

Audience participation

Film Audiences

The nature and role of the audience

Radio audiences

The nature and role of the audience

Television audiences

The nature and role of the audience

Audience studies

Audience studies in South Africa

Theatre audiences

Film Audiences

Radio audiences

Television audiences

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_reception

https://www.google.co.za/#q=Audience+studies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_audience_theory

Susan Bennett 1990. Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception. London and New York: Routledge.


Hauptfleisch 1997.

Snowball et al.

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