What Does "Reception Theory" Argue About Media's Effects

question 17

Multiple Choice

What does "reception theory" argue about media's effects?

• A) That media play a conservative role in society, manipulating and persuading viewers to believe that the status quo is the best of all possible worlds, or even the only possibility
• B) That viewers, listeners, and readers are not just passive receivers but rather engage in thinking about and giving meaning to what they take in
• C) That each person, no matter what his or her social position or background is, interprets what the media deliver very similarly
• D) That our ideas about issues such as gender are a combination of what the media sends and what our government tells us

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