Audience Classification // Media Diary: Week 3

The media text that I have consumed this week is the well-known social networking site, Twitter. I used Twitter to read up on the breaking news that a liquid substance has been found on Mars. This piece of text appeals to an audience who enjoy science, or are just particularly interested that something so out of the ordinary has been discovered.

Next, this piece of text that I have consumed involved the site Twitter, which now-a-days, most people in the world use; this could be categorised in the model, The Narcotising Dysfunctional Model, as this site (from personal experiences) is addictive. Another model that this site could be categorized in is The Cultural Effects Model, as the site can lead to a representation of teenagers, in a negative way, due to the argument of the app being addictive, even though it is being misinterpreted when you're reading up on something to do with space.

This piece of text has an audience categorization of the audience being "Explorers" as finding the substance on Mars is now science history and with this, research will be produced from this to discover whether there is life beyond Earth or whether there is a new twin for Earth, which is new ideas, which is what the "Explorers are all about". Another audience category I also think that this text fits into is the Mainstream audience as most people in the world have Twitter and near enough everyone from Twitter will have come across this discovery.

 Finally I think that this text is treated as active as, everyone who wanted to find out about it will have made their own research, however it is also passive because people on Twitter may have just stumbled across the text due to another user re-tweeting it or sharing information about it.

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