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href="#Ideal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.3</span> <span>Ideal</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ideal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Implied" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Implied"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.4</span> <span>Implied</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Implied-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-On_the_web" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#On_the_web"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.5</span> <span>On the web</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-On_the_web-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Audience_participation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Audience_participation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Audience participation</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Audience_participation-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Audience participation subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Audience_participation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Examples" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Examples"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.1</span> <span>Examples</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Examples-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Faux_participation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Faux_participation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Faux participation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Faux_participation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown 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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%BAblicu" title="Públicu – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Públicu" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%A6%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%95" title="পাঠক-শ্রোতা-দর্শক – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="পাঠক-শ্রোতা-দর্শক" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Публика – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Публика" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espectador" title="Espectador – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Espectador" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publikum" title="Publikum – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Publikum" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publikum" title="Publikum – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Publikum" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publikum" title="Publikum – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Publikum" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publik" title="Publik – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Publik" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espectador" title="Espectador – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Espectador" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publiko" title="Publiko – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Publiko" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entzuleria" title="Entzuleria – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Entzuleria" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B7%D8%A8" title="مخاطب – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مخاطب" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public" title="Public – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Public" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publyk" title="Publyk – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Publyk" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espectador" title="Espectador – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Espectador" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B4%80%EA%B0%9D" title="관객 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="관객" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publika" title="Publika – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Publika" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalayak" title="Khalayak – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Khalayak" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xh mw-list-item"><a href="https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaphulaphuli" title="Abaphulaphuli – Xhosa" lang="xh" hreflang="xh" data-title="Abaphulaphuli" data-language-autonym="IsiXhosa" data-language-local-name="Xhosa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiXhosa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spettatore" title="Spettatore – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Spettatore" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%94%D7%9C" title="קהל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קהל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B7%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%81" title="ಪ್ರೇಕ್ಷಕರು – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಪ್ರೇಕ್ಷಕರು" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadhira" title="Hadhira – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Hadhira" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tema%C5%9Fevan" title="Temaşevan – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Temaşevan" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BA%9C%E0%BA%B9%E0%BB%89%E0%BA%8A%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%A1" title="ຜູ້ຊົມ – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="ຜູ້ຊົມ" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ລາວ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectator_(theatrum)" title="Spectator (theatrum) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Spectator (theatrum)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorija" title="Auditorija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Auditorija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDi%C5%ABrovas" title="Žiūrovas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Žiūrovas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalayak" title="Khalayak – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Khalayak" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A6%B3%E5%AE%A2" title="観客 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="観客" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publikum" title="Publikum – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Publikum" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilskodar" title="Tilskodar – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Tilskodar" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publiczno%C5%9B%C4%87" title="Publiczność – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Publiczność" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espectador" title="Espectador – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Espectador" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectator" title="Spectator – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Spectator" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Публика – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Публика" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience" title="Audience – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Audience" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience" title="Audience – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Audience" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A" title="تماشائي – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="تماشائي" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publikum_(obecenstvo)" title="Publikum (obecenstvo) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Publikum (obecenstvo)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Публика – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Публика" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publika" title="Publika – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Publika" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yleis%C3%B6" title="Yleisö – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Yleisö" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publik" title="Publik – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Publik" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagapanood" title="Tagapanood – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Tagapanood" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agdud" title="Agdud – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Agdud" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" 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data-file-height="44" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article <b>is missing information</b> about <a href="/wiki/Sports_fan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports fan">sports audiences</a>, their collective psychology, and sports-specific practices (e.g. fan segregation in soccer) .<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Audience" title="Talk:Audience">talk page</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">April 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/220px-Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/330px-Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/440px-Batsheva_theater_crowd_in_Tel_Aviv_by_David_Shankbone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2902" data-file-height="1514" /></a><figcaption>An audience in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, Israel, waiting to see the <a href="/wiki/Batsheva_Dance_Company" title="Batsheva Dance Company">Batsheva Dance Company</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_(August,_10)_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%28August%2C_10%29_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg/220px-2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%28August%2C_10%29_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%28August%2C_10%29_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg/330px-2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%28August%2C_10%29_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%28August%2C_10%29_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg/440px-2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics_%28August%2C_10%29_by_Dmitry_Rozhkov_137.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5616" data-file-height="3744" /></a><figcaption>Audiences at the <a href="/wiki/2013_World_Championships_in_Athletics" title="2013 World Championships in Athletics">2013 World Championships in Athletics</a> in Moscow, Russia</figcaption></figure> <p>An <b>audience</b> is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a <a href="/wiki/Work_of_art" title="Work of art">work of art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a> (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called "listeners"), <a href="/wiki/Video_games" class="mw-redirect" title="Video games">video games</a> (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art. Some events invite overt audience participation and others allow only modest clapping and criticism and reception. </p><p>Media audience studies have become a recognized part of the curriculum. <a href="/wiki/Audience_theory" title="Audience theory">Audience theory</a> offers scholarly insight into audiences in general. These insights shape our knowledge of just how audiences affect and are affected by different forms of art. The biggest art form is the <a href="/wiki/Mass_media" title="Mass media">mass media</a>. Films, video games, radio shows, <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">software</a> (and hardware), and other formats are affected by the audience and its reviews and recommendations. </p><p>In the age of easy <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">internet</a> participation and <a href="/wiki/Citizen_journalism" title="Citizen journalism">citizen journalism</a>, professional creators share space, and sometimes attention with the public. American journalist Jeff Jarvis said, "Give the people control of media, they will use it. The corollary: Don't give the people control of media, and you will lose. Whenever citizens can exercise control, they will."<sup id="cite_ref-Rosen_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rosen-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tom Curley, President of the Associated Press, similarly said, "The users are deciding what the point of their engagement will be — what application, what device, what time, what place."<sup id="cite_ref-Rosen_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rosen-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Types">Types</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Types"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Particular_(real)"><span id="Particular_.28real.29"></span>Particular (real)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Particular (real)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a>, some audiences depend on circumstance and situation and are characterized by the individuals that make up the audience. Sometimes these audiences are subject to persuasion and engage with the ideas of the speaker. Ranging in size and composition, this audience may come together and form a "composite" of multiple groups.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Immediate">Immediate</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Immediate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An immediate audience is a type of audience that is composed of individuals who are face-to-face subjects with a speaker and a speaker's rhetorical text or speech.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This audience directly listens to, engages with, and consumes the rhetorical text in an unmediated fashion. In measuring immediate audience reception and feedback, (audience measurement), one can depend on personal interviews, applause, and verbal comments made during and after a rhetorical speech.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mediated">Mediated</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Mediated"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In contrast to immediate audiences, mediated audiences are composed of individuals who consume rhetorical texts in a manner that is different from the time or place in which a speaker presents text. Audiences who consume texts or speeches through television, radio and internet are considered mediated audiences because those mediums separate the rhetor and the audience.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such audiences are physically away from the audience and the message is controlled.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Understanding the size and composition of mediated audiences can be difficult because mediums such as television, radio, and Internet can displace the audience from the time and circumstance of a rhetorical text or speech.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In measuring mediated audience reception and feedback (a practice called <a href="/wiki/Audience_measurement" title="Audience measurement">audience measurement</a>), one can depend on opinion polls and ratings, as well as comments and forums that may be featured on a website. This applies to many fields such as movies, songs and much more. There are companies that specialize in audience measurement.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Theoretical_(imagined)"><span id="Theoretical_.28imagined.29"></span>Theoretical (imagined)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Theoretical (imagined)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Theoretical audiences are imagined for the purpose of helping a speaker compose, practice, or a critic to understand, a rhetorical text or speech.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Self_(self-deliberation)"><span id="Self_.28self-deliberation.29"></span>Self (self-deliberation)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Self (self-deliberation)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When a rhetor deeply considers, questions, and deliberates over the content of the ideas they are conveying, it can be said that these individuals are addressing the audience of self, or self-deliberating. Scholars <a href="/wiki/Cha%C3%AFm_Perelman" title="Chaïm Perelman">Chaïm Perelman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucie_Olbrechts-Tyteca" title="Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca">Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca</a>, in their book <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvpj74xx">The New Rhetoric: A Treatise on Argumentation</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Perelman_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perelman-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> argue that the rhetor "is in a better position than anyone else to test the value of his own arguments." The audience of self, while not serving as the ends to all rhetorical purpose or circumstance, nevertheless acts as a type of audience that not only operates as a function of self-help, but as instrument used to discover the available means of persuasion.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Universal">Universal</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Universal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The universal audience is an imagined audience that serves as an ethical and argumentative test for the rhetor. This also requires the speaker to imagine a composite audience that contains individuals from diverse backgrounds and to discern whether or not the content of the rhetorical text or speech would appeal to individuals within that audience. Scholars <a href="/wiki/Cha%C3%AFm_Perelman" title="Chaïm Perelman">Perelman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucie_Olbrechts-Tyteca" title="Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca">Olbrechts-Tyteca</a> ascertain that the content addressed to a universal audience "must convince the reader that the reasons adduced are of a compelling character, that they are self-evident, and possess an absolute and timeless validity".<sup id="cite_ref-Perelman_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perelman-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept of the universal audience has received criticism for being idealistic because it can be considered as an impediment in achieving persuasive effect with particular audiences. Yet, it still may be useful as an ethical guide for a speaker and a critical tool for a reader or audience.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ideal">Ideal</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Ideal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An ideal audience is a rhetor's imagined, intended audience. In creating a rhetorical text, a rhetor imagines is the <a href="/wiki/Target_audience" title="Target audience">target audience</a>, a group of individuals that will be addressed, persuaded, or affected by the speech or rhetorical text.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This type of audience is not necessarily imagined as the most receptive audience, but as the future particular audience that the rhetor will engage with. Imagining such an audience allows a rhetor to formulate appeals that will grant success in engaging with the future particular audience. In considering an ideal audience, a rhetor can imagine future conditions of mediation, size, demographics, and shared beliefs among the audience to be persuaded.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Implied">Implied</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Implied"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An implied audience is an imaginary audience determined by an auditor or reader as the text's constructed audience. The implied audience is not the actual audience, but the one that can be inferred by reading or analyzing the text. Communications scholar <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Black_(rhetorician)" title="Edwin Black (rhetorician)">Edwin Black</a>, in his essay, The Second Persona,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> presents the theoretical concept of the implied audience using the idea of two personae. The first persona is the implied rhetoric (the idea of the speaker formed by the audience) and the second persona is the implied audience (the idea of the audience formed by and utilized for persuasion in the speech situation). A critic could also determine what the text wants that audience to become or do after the rhetorical situation.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="On_the_web">On the web</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: On the web"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Through the Internet, every person is given the opportunity to participate in different ways. The Internet gives people a platform to write and reach the people who are interested in what they are writing about. When writers write online, they are able to form communities with the people they share common interests with. The audiences that people are trying to reach can be general or specific, all depending on what the writer is discussing in their online posts.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Audiences have to go and check into what the writers are writing to stay on top of the latest information. Writers have to find their niche and try hard to work their way into an already formed community. The audience the writer is reaching is able to respond to the writers posts and can give feedback. The Internet allows these connections to be formed and fostered. In the <i>Here Comes Everybody</i> book by <a href="/wiki/Clay_Shirky" title="Clay Shirky">Clay Shirky</a>, there are various examples of how audience is not only receiving content but actually creating it. The Internet creates a chance of being part of an audience and a creator at the same time.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Audience_participation">Audience participation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Audience participation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l,_2006.08.15_(27).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2006.08.15_%2827%29.jpg/220px-Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2006.08.15_%2827%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2006.08.15_%2827%29.jpg/330px-Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2006.08.15_%2827%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2006.08.15_%2827%29.jpg/440px-Iggy_and_the_Stooges_-_Sziget_Fesztiv%C3%A1l%2C_2006.08.15_%2827%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>Dancing with Iggy - audience participation at Sziget Festival</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/220px-Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/330px-Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/440px-Brooklyn_Book_Festival_crowd_by_David_Shankbone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>An audience at the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Book_Festival" title="Brooklyn Book Festival">Brooklyn Book Festival</a> in New York City</figcaption></figure> <p>Audience participation is commonly found in performances which break the <a href="/wiki/Fourth_wall" title="Fourth wall">fourth wall</a>. Examples include the traditional British <a href="/wiki/Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomimes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stand-up_comedy" title="Stand-up comedy">stand-up comedy</a>, and creative stage shows such as <a href="/wiki/Blue_Man_Group" title="Blue Man Group">Blue Man Group</a>. </p><p>Audience participation can be uncomfortable for certain people,<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but is growing and evolving as a new tool of brand activation and <a href="/wiki/Brand_engagement" title="Brand engagement">brand engagement</a>. In a bid to create and reinforce a special bond between brands and their consumers, companies are increasingly looking towards events that involve active audience participation. Often, organizations provide branded objects to event attendees that will involve the audience in the show as well as act as souvenirs of the event, creating a lasting link with the brand.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, during <a href="/wiki/Super_Bowl_XLVIII" title="Super Bowl XLVIII">Super Bowl XLVIII</a>, the audience was incorporated in the Super Bowl XLVIII Halftime Show as part of the lighting effects. <a href="/wiki/Pepsi" title="Pepsi">Pepsi</a> involved the spectators by giving them "video ski hats" that produced visual effects across the crowd.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By appealing more directly to people and emotions, brands can obtain feedback from their consumers. Companies that provide or seek such experiences refer to the term "crowd activation". For example, Tangible Interaction named one of its branches Crowd Activation<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/PixMob" title="PixMob">PixMob</a> refers to itself as a crowd activation company on its website.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the most well-known examples of popular audience participation accompanies the motion picture and music <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</a></i> and its earlier stage incarnation <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Show" title="The Rocky Horror Show">The Rocky Horror Show</a></i>. The audience participation elements are often seen as the most important part of the picture, to the extent that the audio options on the DVD version include the option. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG/220px-20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG/330px-20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG/440px-20090814_Pritzker_Pavilion_on_Beethoven%27s_9th_Day_crop.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2927" data-file-height="1927" /></a><figcaption>Some of this audience at the <a href="/wiki/Jay_Pritzker_Pavilion" title="Jay Pritzker Pavilion">Jay Pritzker Pavilion</a> provided their own seating to hear <a href="/wiki/Beethoven" class="mw-redirect" title="Beethoven">Beethoven</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Beethoven)" title="Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)">9th Symphony</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Grant_Park_Music_Festival" title="Grant Park Music Festival">Grant Park Music Festival</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Examples">Examples</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg/220px-Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg/330px-Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg/440px-Audience_Frontier_Fiesta.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5703" data-file-height="4515" /></a><figcaption>Audience at a Frontier Fiesta show, 1950s</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG/250px-HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG/330px-HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG/500px-HK_Ocean_Park_Audience.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Audience at a show in Hong Kong</figcaption></figure><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show_cult_following" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following">The Rocky Horror Picture Show cult following</a></div> <p>In the audience participation for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show" title="The Rocky Horror Picture Show">The Rocky Horror Picture Show</a></i> (1975), the audience will make "call backs", and yell at the screen at certain parts of the movie. Also, a number of props are thrown and used by the audience during certain parts of the film. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blues_Brothers_(film)" title="The Blues Brothers (film)">The Blues Brothers</a></i> (1980) has become a staple of late-night cinema, even slowly morphing into an audience-participation show in its regular screenings at the <a href="/wiki/Valhalla_Cinema,_Melbourne" title="Valhalla Cinema, Melbourne">Valhalla Cinema</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Age_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Age-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Landis acknowledged the support of the cinema and the fans by a phone call he made to the cinema at the 10th-anniversary screening, and later invited regular attendees to make cameo appearances in <i><a href="/wiki/Blues_Brothers_2000" title="Blues Brothers 2000">Blues Brothers 2000</a></i> (1998). The fans act as the members of the crowd during the performance of "<a href="/wiki/(Ghost)_Riders_in_the_Sky:_A_Cowboy_Legend" title="(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend">Ghost Riders in the Sky</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-ROTBB_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ROTBB-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In British pantomime performances, the audience is a crucial aspect of the show and is expected to perform certain tasks such as: </p> <ul><li>Interacting with an "audience friend", a character often designed to be comedic and sympathetic, such as <a href="/wiki/Buttons_(pantomime)" title="Buttons (pantomime)">Buttons</a> from "<a href="/wiki/Cinderella" title="Cinderella">Cinderella</a>". Typical interactions include <a href="/wiki/Call_and_response" title="Call and response">call and response</a> (e.g. Buttons: "Hiya gang!" Audience: "Hiya Buttons!")</li> <li>Back and forth arguments, usually composed of simple, repetitive phrases (e.g. Character: "No there isn't!" Audience: "Yes there is!")</li> <li>"Ghost gags", where the audience yells loudly to inform the character of imminent danger, usually whilst the character is completely unaware.</li></ul> <p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_William_Shakespeare_(Abridged)" title="The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)">The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)</a></i> divides the audience into groups assigned to call out the concerns of three components of a character's psyche. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood_(musical)" title="The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical)">The Mystery of Edwin Drood</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway theatre</a> <a href="/wiki/Musical_theatre" title="Musical theatre">musical</a> based on <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>'s last, unfinished work, the audience must vote for whom they think the murderer is, as well as the real identity of the detective and the couple who end up together. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics" title="1984 Summer Olympics">1984 Summer Olympics</a> included <a href="/wiki/Card_stunt" title="Card stunt">card stunts</a> at the Olympic Stadium. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Tony_n%27_Tina%27s_Wedding" title="Tony n' Tina's Wedding">Tony n' Tina's Wedding</a></i> engages the entire audience at once, staging a narrative set during a wedding in which the audience performs the role of "guests". </p><p>The British <a href="/wiki/Panel_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Panel game">panel game</a> <i><a href="/wiki/QI" title="QI">QI</a></i> often allows the audience to try to answer questions. Currently, the audience have won one show, and have come last in another. </p><p>Magic shows often rely on some audience participation. Psychological illusionist <a href="/wiki/Derren_Brown" title="Derren Brown">Derren Brown</a> relies heavily on audience participation in his live shows. </p><p>During performances of the "<a href="/wiki/Radetzky_March" title="Radetzky March">Radetzky March</a>", it is traditional for the audience to clap along with the beat of the second (louder) repetitions of the chorus. This is particularly notable at the <a href="/wiki/Neujahrskonzert" class="mw-redirect" title="Neujahrskonzert">Neujahrskonzert</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Blog" title="Blog">Bloggers</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_YouTubers" title="List of YouTubers">YouTubers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Online_streamer" title="Online streamer">live streamers</a> often allow their viewers moderated or unmoderated comments sections. </p><p>Some musical groups often heavily incorporate audience participation into their live shows. The <a href="/wiki/Superhero" title="Superhero">superhero</a>-themed comedy rock band <a href="/wiki/The_Aquabats" title="The Aquabats">The Aquabats</a> typically do so within their <a href="/wiki/The_Aquabats#Live_performances" title="The Aquabats">theatrical stage shows</a> through such antics as "pool floatie races", where members of the band race across the venue on inflatable rafts via <a href="/wiki/Crowd_surfing" title="Crowd surfing">crowd surfing</a>, or providing the audience with projectiles (such as <a href="/wiki/Ball_pit" title="Ball pit">plastic balls</a> or <a href="/wiki/Beach_ball" title="Beach ball">beach balls</a>) to throw at costumed "bad guys" who come out on stage. <a href="/wiki/Koo_Koo_Kanga_Roo" title="Koo Koo Kanga Roo">Koo Koo Kanga Roo</a>, a comedy dance-pop duo, write their music solely for audience participation, utilizing <a href="/wiki/Call_and_response_(music)" title="Call and response (music)">call and response</a> style <a href="/wiki/Sing-along" title="Sing-along">sing-along</a> songs which are usually accompanied by a simple <a href="/wiki/Dance_move" title="Dance move">dance move</a> that the band encourage the audience to follow along with. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Faux_participation">Faux participation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Faux participation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Studio_audience" title="Studio audience">Studio audience</a></div> <p>The television series <i><a href="/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000" title="Mystery Science Theater 3000">Mystery Science Theater 3000</a></i> features a man and his robots held as imprisoned audience members and tortured by being forced to view "bad" movies; to retain their sanity, they talk throughout and <a href="/wiki/Heckler" title="Heckler">heckled</a> each one. </p><p>In a similar vein, the online site <a href="/wiki/Television_Without_Pity" title="Television Without Pity">Television Without Pity</a> has a stable of reviewers and <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recapitulation" class="extiw" title="wikt:recapitulation">recappers</a> who speak the <a href="/wiki/Jargon" title="Jargon">lingo</a> of audience members rather than of scholars, and who sometimes act as though they, too, are being tortured.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Audience&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Rosen-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Rosen_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Rosen_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRosen2006" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jay_Rosen" title="Jay Rosen">Rosen, Jay</a> (June 27, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160830232111/http://archive.pressthink.org/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html">"The People Formerly Known as the Audience"</a>. 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