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Are we just empty vessels absorbing the media content and then reproducing it in our everyday lives? Introduction The essay title explicitly refers to audiences and their perception of the mass media. Althusser's structuralist political persuasion assisted his conception of the empty vessel theory. His dominant opinion was that the media was manoeuvred as an ideological state apparatus, used to influence the populace. At the outset, I shall define what an audience is, and how it can be understood in reference to the media. The perception of an audience is dependent on the theorist that is applying the assumption. This has been defined by Branston and Stafford as the effects model, or the hypodermic model. I shall attempt to make reference to any situations where it is believed the Effects model can be applied to audience reception. In balance I shall look at the conflicting theory of the Uses and Gratifications model,...

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