CMN 2152 Lecture 6: Lec. 6

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2152
• Professor: Jozsef Orosz

Document Summary

Spectator: the subject position of the individual who looks. Spectator"s gaze: a relationship between the subject who looks and people, institutions, and objects in the world. The subject (spectator) gives meaning to the object and/or subject matter. The spectator, then, is the one who makes sense of the images on the screen, and his/her relation to the image is what gives the narrative a meaning. Personal relationship between the spectator and the performer is referred to as a para-social relationship: the more a performer adjusts the performance to the response of the audience, the more the audience tends to make the response anticipated. Characteristically the interaction is one-sided, non-dialectical, and controlled by the performer. face-to-face communication,