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audience

vr.tr.audience · SOC.ORG

Let an agent explain audiences and their kinds, describe how audiences are measured and studied, support event and safety questions, and separate the sense of a formal audience with a dignitary.

Thing Registry Society, people and institutions

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain audiences and their kinds, describe how audiences are measured and studied, support event and safety questions, and separate the sense of a formal audience with a dignitary.

The group of people who attend, watch, listen to or read a performance, event, broadcast or work, from theatre, concert and sports crowds, including organised supporter groups such as ultras and club supporters, to broadcast and online audiences measured by ratings; audiences are studied in media and cultural research, targeted in marketing, managed for safety at venues, and the word also names a formal meeting granted by a dignitary.

What it is for: People attending or receiving a performance or work.

It can be explain kinds of audience; describe measurement and research; support event and safety questions; separate other senses.

Distinguishing features

Reception role

Live or mediated

Measurable

Organised subgroups

What it looks like

Crowds in venues, or dispersed viewers and readers.

How it is recognised

Receivers of a performance or work

Live, broadcast or online

A formal audience with a dignitary is a meeting, another sense

Related models

is a kind of - category

group of humans

is a kind of - category

visitor

is related to - enthusiastic audience members

fan

is related to - broadcast audiences

broadcasting

In practice

Families and kinds

live audiences at performances and events

sports crowds and organised supporter groups

broadcast audiences

online and streaming audiences

readerships

Standards and regulation

Audience measurement standards

Venue safety and crowd management rules

Advertising and privacy rules for audience data

Failure modes and hazards

Crowd crushes and disorder

Misleading audience figures

Confusing senses

Also called

sports fanfalangistsumo fanultrasCeltic F.C. supporterscamisa viejaōmukōkibitzerviewershipstudio audience

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.audience-group

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What an audience is.

Definitions.

Kinds

Kinds of audience.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. How do live, sports, broadcast, online and reading audiences differ, and what are organised supporter groups such as ultras? definition
  2. Is an audience of receivers or a formal audience with a dignitary meant? boundary

Research

Audience research.

Research

Research.

  1. How do media and cultural researchers study audiences and reception? provenance
  2. Which entry fits audience studies? action
Measure Measuring audiences.

Practice.

Ratings

Ratings and metrics.

Ratings

Ratings.

  1. How are broadcast, online and event audiences measured, and how reliable are the figures? provenance
  2. Which entry fits audience measurement? action

Marketing

Targeting audiences.

Marketing

Marketing.

  1. How are audiences segmented and targeted, and what privacy rules apply to audience data? provenance
  2. Which entry fits data protection? action
Manage Live audiences and safety.

Safety.

Crowd

Crowd safety.

Crowd

Crowd safety.

  1. How are live audiences managed for safety, and what lessons come from crowd disasters? provenance
  2. Is an emergency at a venue happening now? boundary

Supporters

Supporter groups.

Supporters

Supporters.

  1. How do organised supporter groups such as ultras operate, and what debates exist about them, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Learn History and teaching.

Education.

History

History of audiences.

History

History.

  1. How have audiences changed from ancient theatres to mass media and online platforms, according to historians? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Teach

Teaching.

Teach

Teaching.

  1. How can audience studies be taught? action
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should supporter groups be a separate entry?
  • How should measurement bodies be linked?
  • How should crowd safety guidance be linked?