Monday, March 9, 2020

Zoella and Attitude Exam Question

Clay Shirky argues that audiences in today’s online age are no longer passive consumers of media content. Evaluate this ‘end of audience’ theory.

Refer to Zoella (
blog /youtube/other channels ) and  the Attitude website to support your answer. [30]

Shirky's theory states that modern online audiences no longer passively consume media sectors but rather, they actively engage with them. consumers can have one of three views; active, interactive and individual "prosumers".

We can debate this through Attitudes online website. Attitude is a print based magazine that has recently launched a website. This was used to produce more consumerism and to encourage the demographic ( gay , middle aged males) to be more of an active audience. this was because there was a lack of feedback and interaction from readers as there was no way for them to