Knock, Knock. Who's There? The Imagined Audience
Knock, Knock. Who's There? The Imagined Audience
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DOI：
10.1080/08838151.2012.705195
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Litt, Eden
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作者：
Litt, Eden
世纪以来，学者们一直提到“想象的听众”的概念--一个人对他或她正在与之交流的人的心理概念化。长期以来，想象中的受众一直在指导我们日常写作和说话的思想和行动。然而，在当今的社交媒体世界中，用户必须在高度公共的空间中导航，潜在的大量和无形的观众，学者们开始问：当人们在这些空间中表演时，他们会把谁想象成他们的公众或观众？本文有助于文学提供了一个理论框架，广泛定义的结构，确定其在当代社会的意义和现有的紧张关系之间的想象和实际的观众，并借鉴吉登斯的结构化的概念，理论化是什么影响人们的想象观众组成的变化。报告最后提出了一个研究议程，突出了调查的基本领域。
For more than a century, scholars have alluded to the notion of an "imagined audience"-a person's mental conceptualization of the people with whom he or she is communicating. The imagined audience has long guided our thoughts and actions during everyday writing and speaking. However, in today's world of social media where users must navigate through highly public spaces with potentially large and invisible audiences, scholars have begun to ask: Who do people envision as their public or audience as they perform in these spaces? This article contributes to the literature by providing a theoretical framework that broadly defines the construct; identifies its significance in contemporary society and the existing tensions between the imagined and actual audiences; and drawing on Giddens's concept of structuration, theorizes what influences variations in people's imagined audience compositions. It concludes with a research agenda highlighting essential areas of inquiry.