Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Task 2 audience research classifying

The audience
  • Demographics- jicnars -> measure if social class, income and occupation. C1 and c2 cover most people.
  • There are a number of problems with this scale. It is still very common.
  • Media research/ market research companies use jicnars as a very valuable tool.
  • Before new media products are created. Research companies carry out research into audiences. 
  • They need ways of categorising the audience.
  • Jicnars is a demographic method of measuring/ categorising audience.
  • Demographics- factual measures of audience to put them into groups includes- social class (A-E), sex/gender, age, geographical locations, ethnicity, faith/religion, disability, sexuality.


Lifestyle profiling
Categorises audience in terms of hobbies, interests, lifestyle, products consumed.

There are new lifestyle groups emerging through social networks.

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