Audiences

Audience

The word 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 , also means something along the lines of "to have listened", despite the fact one is talking of audio-visual performance forms and media).

Audience studies

Sources

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

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

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

Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception Author Susan Bennett

Hauptfleisch 1997.

Snowball et al.

Sources

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