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{CTVA 302}: Critical Studies: Television Module 7 • Audiences + Publics March 20, 2024 Worksheet 7.2 To be completed during the video lecture : 1. Quick: take a minute and think about how we have talked about the audience (as a group of viewers) of a television series so far in this course. List some of the ways we have invoked “the audience” below. Some ways that have been invoked “the audience is the fact that television is divided in different types of genres that the viewers have most interest. For example, early tv, is intended audience of housewives. News/Sports programming is audience organized around imagines communities of family or a nation. The types of genre is often linked to many different audience and often we can broaden this to the category of the audience. 2. Consider two stereotypes of viewers: the couch potato and the TV junkie. Which do you feel is more accurate? With which, if any do you identify? Is there a middle position between these two stereotypes, and how would you describe such a position? I feel that the stereotypes of the “couch potato” and the tv junkie are both not entirely accurate of the representation of what some viewers might think, but it does however capture the expectation of how people do engage with television today. The “couch potato “is a type of inactive person that tends to spend 90% of watching majority of watching television. The version of a “TV junkie” implies to someone who is obsessed with television and has a tendency of prioritizing watching television more rather than addressing their attention to other aspects of life. In my opinion, I believe that I don’t identify with either type of stereotype of tv junkie or couch potato. I do watch/ stream television not often only because majority of my time goes to working and doing daily {CTVA 302}: Critical Studies: Television Worksheet 7.2

exercise and hard intense cardio with boxing. As a film major I try to explore many different types of movies/ shows. With my daily schedule I try to watch television as a form of relaxation after a long day and try not to be on my phone as much. 3. While watching the episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show , did you find yourself reacting in ways similar to or different from Oprah’s live studio audience? Which opinions elicited the strongest reactions from you? In the Oprah Winfrey show, I found myself reacting ways a little similar because of how to episode address racism that strong connections with the audience had due to the high emotional making the topics she talked out very intense and allowing the audience to make connections a deeper level. The viewers were moved in such a personal way by the stories of racism and discrimination that they highlighted the systematic nature of racism that had affected people’s life in the clip. The episode of Oprah’s 1922 racism had such strong reactions from viewers due to the emotional and challenging nature of the topic but also had meaningful and impactful connections. 4. Watch Clip 7.5 “Oprah Audience Perspectives,” which features Oprah getting quick reactions from two of her live studio audience members. How does the clip present the public sphere? How does Oprah negotiate between the different perspectives presented by her guests? The features Oprah getting quick relations from two of her live studio audience members from two of her live studio audience members was sharing the rang of beliefs and the type of experiences reflecting the larger public discourse. In her clip it represents public sphere is having her constructive but yet respectful dialogue, Oprah role as a mediator allows to navigate between different types of perspectives presented by her guests in the clip. Oprah engaged the importance of how she was able to incorporate the importance od diverse perspectives in the public sphere with leading thoughtful dialogue that creates a well-known {CTVA 302}: Critical Studies: Television Worksheet 7.2

understanding of empathy among personalities with having differing standpoints. 5. Compare and contrast how The Oprah Winfrey Show and NRATV engage with the rhetorical mode of address. How do they engage their audiences, and how do they invoke the notion of the “fictive We”? In the Oprah Winfrey she addresses in her empathetic and conversational type of approach. She does often engage straight directly to her audience and acknowledge the guests. She uses the notion of “fictive we” because she tends to create this sensation of the power of unity, and she often shared experiences with her audience keeping them engaged. The fact that she shares these experiences with the audience, she creates this sense of belonging and solidarity drawing the viewers as part of a larger type of community. NRATV is a media arm of the national rifle association, with this aspect it forms the audience and approaches more in a combative and confrontational with the audience. “Fiction we” with NRATV uses inclusive when it comes to language. It’s framed in a way the audience is joined group under attack. Both of the Oprah Winfrey and NRATV used their language to rhetoric to engage the audiences’ attentions in which they did differently in their own ways. Oprah focus was created of this sense of empathy and larger community, as for NRATV was pursued to organize its audience through fear and identity-based type of applications. To be completed during our Zoom discussion on 3.20 : 6. As a class we will watch Clip 7.6, which is a clip from Oprah’s famous 2021 interview with the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Now, compare it with the episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show screened for this module. What key formal {CTVA 302}: Critical Studies: Television Worksheet 7.2

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