Audience

An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called the "reader"), theatre, music, 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.

Media audiences are studied by academics in media audience studies. Audience theory 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.

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