AudienceIs the Social Media Landscape

Hegemonic or Democratic?

Kaya Sumbland

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Ancillary

Whole Audience

TARGET AUDIENCE:• 16 – 24 year olds• Females• Working Class• British • Interests in Internet/technology

SECONDARY AUDIENCE:• 30 year olds• Males & Females• Middle Class• Worldwide – cross cultures • Interests in society, modernity,

technology

Target Audience

Its very difficult to distinguish one gender from our documentary because its so unisex. Though females will be more attracted to our documentary because of our pink theme colour, and also the majority of social networking is more suited to females than males – e.g tumblr

This would be working class because we will focus much more on their morals, norms, values and culture throughout. Also the videos from YouTube will be viral video from their class rather than any other.

Our ethnicity is British. Our documentary is set in Britain – includes any ethnical background. It doesn't lean to any colour or race specifically. It directs at the whole of an internet culture.

There is no target audience in sexuality – it does not target anyone in specific in this group.Though I feel hegemonic males would be less inclined to watch a documentary on social media.

There is no professional role in our target audience.Our T.G would most likely attend college or be at university – in social surroundings

They would certainly have an interest in technology, the elite, the internet, funny videos or meme images

Secondary Audience This is 30 year olds because they’ll take a much more intellectual debate and interest on our topic. They’ll wish to lean on the hegemony – also it’s the 2nd biggest age group on social media

This is then unisex because its very hard to distinguish a gender. I believe due to the debate within the topic both genders of this age group will watch it

This then would be the middle class as they would be professionals. Working class 30 year olds would probably not have an interest in the debate of hegemony and democracy in the topic – this is generally speaking

World wide and cross cultures because again of the debate within it. They would be attracted by the elites power within social media – and possibly want to watch it in concern of their children using social media

They would be professionals from possibly any area.

Their interests would be society, modernity, technology, social media.

Again there is no target audience in sexuality – it does not target anyone in specific in this group.Though I feel hegemonic males would be less inclined to watch a documentary on social media.

If we look at this chart from visual.ly it shows females are defiantly more interested in social media – however, I do believe we target both

genders equally in our secondary audience.This graph however, does support our choice of females in target

audience

Statistics That Help Support Target AudienceThus based on youth and their culture

• Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt.

• 97% of the fans on Pinterest’s Facebook page are women

• Social media is the most popular online activity

• Around 40% of people access their social media accounts on mobile devices

• 98% of 18- to 24-year-olds use social accounts every month

• 57% of Facebook users have completed some college (and 24% have degrees)

• 50% of Google+ users are 24 or younger

Statistics That Help Support Secondary AudienceThus based on professionals

• 53% of people on Twitter recommend products in their tweets.

• Every second, 2 new members join LinkedIn.

• 9/10 businesses use social media

• 62% of adults worldwide now use social media

• 53% of small businesses are using social media

• 88% of them are using social media to increase exposure

• 60% of small business decision makers spend less than $100 on social media

• 53% of active social media users follow a brand

• 65% of the world’s top companies have an active Twitter profile