Audience

Learning your audience is a daunting tasks through text alone. It is much like trying to determine true emotion through a text message. There is so many little details in people’s actions and responses that can teach you, or at least create an assumption, of how the audience feels.

After reading the discussions pertaining to audience in my class, I can say that there is a decent amount of variety. The question I provided to the class provided some perspective, though not without some analyzing of posts, into why the audience is who they are. From what I gathered, many are Christians, some more obvious than others. This can lead to my thoughts and ideas often times being regarded as unpopular because I am a vocal anti-religion agnostic.

There was a question that asked, "If we could give up something we hold dear forever and do anything we wanted for one day, would we do it and what would it be?" The responses were all the same: It wouldn't be worth it. All, except one. One respondent said that he would do it to have one more day with his deceased wife. The way I perceived these reflects that my audience, when attached to something, will not easily be swayed into giving it up.

Many of the questions were much smaller in scope, but very detail oriented. Knowing something as simple as what people like to listen to can open the door to much more details of their interests. Though it can be looked at as stereotyping, I know that almost everyone I have met that has similar music tastes to myself also have very similar interests. By deducing from that, I can assume, sometimes incorrectly, that people with other similar music tastes will also have similar interests.

All in all, I would say that there are some complex thinkers (big picture) in the audience ranging all the way down to pretty simplistic thinkers (small picture).