Wednesday 13 February 2013

Recepton Theory

Are people passively accepting media texts?

definition: emphasizes the readers reception of a literacy text.

  • focuses on the scope for negotiation and opposition
  • any 'text' is not passively accepted by the audience but interpreted based on their indivudal culture and background and life exp
  • meaning is created within the relationship between the reader and text

What do we interpret from a message?
Stuart halls on social positioning - the meanings of messages are able to be distorted and interpreted different by the audience
messages are encoded with meaning; decoded by audience to mean something

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Reception models
Dominant (hegemonic) reading:



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