LIFE HACKS

Audiences: Life hacks radio 1 product has a public service status as part of BBC

Industries: Life Hacks shows how industry targets niche audiences

Life Hacks reflects acceptance of diversity and degree of openness in contemporary culture around personal, social and identity issues

Identification of funding for Radio 1 through license fee, concept of hypothecated tax

WAR OF THE WORLDS

War of the Worlds holds important historic context that suggests alien invasion represents something from 1930s such as Hitler, Stalin or start of World War 2

Performed and directed on radio by Orson Wells

War of the Worlds broadcast by Columbia Broadcasting Company (CBS) – institution still in existence today

Andrew Crissel wrote book about radio language and understanding radio, he said “Radio is a blind medium” meaning you can’t see it

THEORIES TO CONSIDER:

RECEPTION THEORY – STUART HALL:

END OF AUDIENCE THEORY – CLAY SHIRKY:

Audience behaviour has changed due to the internet and the ability for audiences to create their own content at home thanks to the lower cost of technology