Passive and active

Passive: a passive audience is an audience that agrees and mainly believes everything in media. The audience when given a piece of news or media tend to believe it and will not question what the meaning it or the story behind it.

Active: an active audience is an audience which will think about what the media has given them and questions whether it is actually true.


An example of this could be the Honey G incident where there was an article where it said she was shot but the next day she was on a live show of This Morning. For those who are passive they would believe this and not question whether she was actually killed while an active audience would more likely to question whether it was true that she was shot and so would research into it a bit to see if it was true. Since Honey G was on the show This Morning after the article was released it was proved that it was a lie and she was not shot.