Audience Profiling
Learn how to analyze and categorize audience types in political content such as blogs, C-Span, and satirical sources like Onion and Jib-Jab. Understand the different roles like primary readers, advisors, gatekeepers, and more outlined in Technical Communication Today. Discover how to identify authors' agendas and anticipate audience interactions with text analysis examples.
Audience Profiling
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Presentation Transcript
Basic Audience Analysis • Each of the following considers politics, but notice how the audience differs: • Blog • Blog II • C-Span • Onion • Jib-Jab
Consider the types of readers: • Primary readers • Action Takers • Secondary Readers • Advisors • Tertiary Readers • Evaluators • Gatekeepers • Supervisors From Johnson-Sheehan, Technical Communication Today, 2nd. Ed. P. 43
Analysis • Determine what agenda the author has • Consider who is likely to: • Encounter the text • Read the text • Be affected by the text • Discuss the text • Refer to the text • When making a claim about your analysis, always use plenty of examples from the text!