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Croteau, Media/Society, 6e
SAGE Publishing, 2019
Discussion Questions
Chapter 8: Active Audiences and Users
1. What does it mean that audience members are “active” readers? What kind of
activities do you participate in?
2. How does class influence how one interprets television? How does it impact the
degree of “realism” one sees?
3. How do you consume international media?
4. What positive changes have you experienced with media’s representations of
pleasure?
5. What are the ways in which media texts are “encoded and decoded”? What tools
help individuals to decode media texts? What (if any) are the constraints on
decoding media texts?
