Ailee mentioned in class the concept of producing media for itself and not for an audience, and gave the example of making films because filmmakers love the genre. Instinctively, I found that I didn’t think that media can exist without an audience, so I wanted to consider this idea of an audience-less media and see if I can find a counterexample or counterargument.<\/p>\n
Take the example of art films, which are typically not made for mass market appeal, focus on aesthetic\/visual goals, and\/or fall outside mainstream standards and trends. However, these art films are still made with an audience in mind because they, as a form of media, must communicate some<\/em> message. Even if the film is made out of the love of art, I would argue that the film is communicating the filmmaker\u2019s love of the genre. Just because a film or a piece of media isn\u2019t made to appeal to a specific audience doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s audience-less. Instead, the media, by virtue of existing as part of the process of communication, must reach some <\/em>audience, somewhere.<\/p>\n Looking forward to digging further into the relationship between audiences and media next week – I think the ties between media and its audience when using media for a specific purpose (ex: political) and the audience’s role and influence on that media has many nuances to discuss.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ailee mentioned in class the concept of producing media for itself and not for an audience, and gave the example of making films because filmmakers love the genre. Instinctively, I found that I didn’t think that media can exist without an audience, so I wanted to consider this idea of an audience-less media and see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}