Culture’s Influence on Perception NM3420 AUDIENCE CONTEXT ANALYSIS 4

Culture’s Influence on Perception

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Hofstede (1994)

1. Symbols

2. Rituals

3. Values

4. Heroes

Elements of culture

Confucian and Western

perspectives on communication

Confucian effects on intercultural communication

High versus Low Context Culture

Culture

THREE MODELS OF THE AUDIENCEJames G. Webster (1998)

1. audience-as-outcome

2. Audience-as-mass

3. Audience-as-agent

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10% Presentation Next Week! Thursday 5th February

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10% Presentation What included?

1. What is your mobile application?

2. What is it and how does it work?

3. What is their target audience?

4. What are the characteristics of the target audience?

5. *** Reference of your research (Reliable)

5 minutes ONLY!

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Presentation I : 5th February What NOT included on next week presentation?

Reference in Footnote

NO Plagiarism!! NOT Even one sentenceDO NOT COPY and PASTE ANYTHING!Don’t make up any information

Acceptable case‘ .....Quote the sentence’ (Reference: www.....)

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WHAT if you plagiarize???

Audience Theories Frameworks: When analyze your audience

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- This coursework >>> know your audience as much as possible!!

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WHY?Because at the end ! You will need to produce a campaign to attract themYou will need to produce a media that attract them!

In order to product the media that attract/ create impact on the target audience you need to know what they think, what will affect them!

Audience Theories Frameworks: When analyze your audience

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1. Audience

2. Relationship between the audience and the media

3. Relationship of the audience, media, and context of viewing behavior

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- Demographics >> First presentation- Psychographics

- Media usage- Media effects

- Culture- Society

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INTRODUCTION

Presentation I: Next Week

1. Dixit: An online version of a board game

3. Target Audience: Relate to the game

The primary audience: The passionate board game players who frequently use smart phones and have experienced Dixit as a board game before.

Reasons

1. Passionate board game player: - The board game which produced 2008, 3 years before the application launched- Dixit Have won so many awards, therefore famous among the board game enthusiasts + it was rated 4 stars in the website boardgamegeek.com (the worldwide board game community)

2. Experienced before- Have Few advertisement about the application, so the app users are more likely to be aware of the game before the downloading process.

3. AND SO ON .......

2. Guessing the card through keywords All players need to be online, since all players must take turn in each round, the

game will be held longer if one does not respond.

Presentation I: Next Week

Winner of a host of awards worldwide

2009 Game of the Year- France 2009 Game of the Year- Spain 2010 Game of the Year - Germany 2009 Golden Lily - Quebec 2009 Joker Award- Belgium 2009 Best Beginners' Game - Portugal Public Prize - Cordoba Games Festival - Spain 2009 Best Game - Parthenay Games Festival - France 2009 Tric Trac Bronze Medal - France 2010 Best Party Game - USA 2010 Game of the Year Finalist - Poland 2010 Game of the Year - Germany 2010 Game of the Year - Finland 2010 Game of the Year Finnalist - Netherland

Presentation I: Next Week

4. Target audience analysis (Do Not Relate to the Game) What would a passionate board game players who frequently use smart phones and have experienced Dixit as a board game before be like???

Board game players : How many? >> I don’t know! It’s ok

Google Scholar >> Board game on smart phones >> Board game application >> Board game app

Presentation I: Next Week

4. Target audience analysis (Do Not Relate to the Game)

ReferenceThe official website of Dixit producer : http://en.libellud.com/games/dixitThe world popular game community site: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39856/dixitGamification by Design, Gabe Zichermann & Christopher Cunningham, 2010

The research suggests that the main audience of board games are still children (Fact) , however, it can be argued that the audience could be different depending on the complexity of the game. (Personal Opinion, you can doubt, Don’t assume things )

Next sentence >>> Look for information about complexity of the game VS different Age

Presentation I: Next Week

Tips

1. Spend Time: Find one good source and you win this assignment!In reality you need information from many sources This assignment is so that you understand the process

2. Wording: notice some new key words from the previous read

3. Skim read

4. Introduction, content and conclusion

5. Reference at the back of the book

6. Keep questioning

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45% Assignment + 20% Final Project(All linked)

Today’s Lesson

1. Sampling Methods (Assignment)

2. Senses and Perception(Exam)

- Senses and limitations

- Effect of culture on sensing

- The three-step process of perceiving

- Barriers to intercultural communication

Sampling MethodsMethods of identify and measure audience

Different types of sampling methods Ways to understand your audience

DefinitionPopulation: A group of individual who may have an opinion relating to the subject of the survey (Miller, 1995)

Sample: Selected individuals from the population as representatives

Impossible to communicate with everyone

Sampling Methods

We will be focusing on focus group method 1. Person-to-person interview (BEST) 2. Telephone interview3. Mail-administered survey

Measurement Errors

1. Too small samples2. Researchers try to measure complex concept

through questionnaires

In reality >> There are complex mathematical equations when collecting samples

Analyzing information

- Noticing details: Pay attention to the details]- Linking facts- Linking events- Understanding individuals as well as the contexts- Know the world

Audience Research

Methodologies

• Survey

• Interview

• Test

• Observation

Question Errors

Avoid Leading questionsLeading the interviewees to some certain answer

“What do you think about the benefits of ...?”

Question Errors

Avoid double-barreled questionsTwo separated topics in one question

How happy are you with your phone company’s rate and customer service?

Presentation II : 19th March 15%

Audience Theories Frameworks: When analyze your audience

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1. Audience

2. Relationship between the audience and the media

3. Relationship of the audience, media, and context of viewing behavior

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- **** Demographics >> First presentation

Psychographics >> Second presentation

- Media usage- Media effects

- Culture- Society

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INTRODUCTION

Presentation II : 15%: Individual + Submit Hard Copy19th March

2. Target Audience Analysis: Primary

2.3 Collect Samples from the target audience

Choose sampling methods:

EG. Interview few target audience using open-ended questions: record all activities

2.4 Insight analysis Analyze the group of audience (At this point do not relate any information to the app, PURE target audience analysis)No assumption, Use evidence

Assignment 45%NM3420 AUDIENCE CONTEXT ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION

Presentation II : 15%: Individual + Submit Hard Copy19th March

2. Target Audience Analysis: Primary

2.3 Collect Samples from the target audience

Conduct a set of questions to explore their personalitiesInterview them: Open ended questions

Minimum 3 people in your target audience, MAKE IT SUPER Details!

2.4 Insight analysis Analyze the group of audience (At this point do not relate any information to the app, PURE target audience analysis)No assumption, Use evidenceUse the primary research information as well

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INTRODUCTION

Select a Mobile Application ANALYSE Understand the Content

Know the Target Audience Notice

Understand Target Audience

1. Secondary ResearchAvailable information

2. Primary ResearchSampling : (Conduct Interview)

ANALYSE

Apply to your media content

Outline the campaign to raise awareness

Create small introduction VDO for the campaign

“People see the world differently”

People differ culturally in...- how they physiologically experience the world

or- how they interpret what they experience?

Sensing and perception

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Our Senses and Their Limitations

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Sensing

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Our Senses and Their Limitations

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Sensing

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o See objects the size of a cantaloupe at a distance of

1,200 feet/ 365 metres.

o 20% of what is available to be seen is lost or distorted in

transit to the human brain.

Our Senses and Their Limitations

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Sensing

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o Has a workably conscious sound spectrum covering a

range from 20 to 20,000 vibration cycles per second –

roughly 10 octaves

o Plus partly conscious “sensing” of higher and lower

frequencies

o A normal loss of fidelity estimated at between 22% and

25%

Our Senses and Their Limitations

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Sensing

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o Can differentiate among about 5,000 different smells

down to a threshold of stimulation of as little as 400

molecules of a substance.

o Smell is a less reliable human sense.

Our Senses and Their Limitations

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Sensing

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o Has about 10,000 differentiated taste sensations in

relation to the basic sensations of bitter, salty, sour, and

sweet.

o “Umami” is best described as “savoriness”

o To taste a substance requires about 25,000 times more

molecules than are required to smell it.

Our Senses and Their Limitations

• Sight

• Hearing

• Smell

• Taste

• Touch

Sensing

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o Of all human senses, touch, especially as related to

pain, temperature, and pressure, relates most directly to

automatic, reflex-arc reactions.

o Virtually all these sensations lead to responses initiated

before the brain consciously begins to react.

Effect of Culture on Sensing

Sensing

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Kitayama, Duffy, Kawamura, and Larsen (2003) Experiment

The original stimulus

9 inches Japanese

European Americans

The absolute task

The relative task

3 inches

The Three-step Process

1. Selection

2. Organization

3. Interpretation

Perceiving

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The Three-step Process

1. Selection

Perceiving

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We don’t consciously see any object unless we are paying direct, focused attention on that object. When we need something, have an interest in it, or want it, we are more likely to sense it out of competing stimuli.

The Three-step Process

1. Selection

Perceiving

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Japanese/English Difficulties with Speech sound

-Vowel length: obasan aunt

obaasan grandmother

-Double consonants: shita did

shittanew

-Accent: kakioyster

kakipersimmon

-Pitch: hashibridge

hashichopsticks

hashiedge of a table

The Three-step Process

2. Organization

Perceiving

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Along with selecting stimuli from the environment, you must organize them in some meaningful way.

The Three-step Process

2. Organization

Perceiving

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red orange yellow green blue purple

cipsuka cicena citema cipsuka

ziza hui

English

Shona

Bassa

The Three-step Process

3. Interpretation

Perceiving

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This refers to attaching meaning to sense data and is synonymous with decoding.

The Three-step Process

3. Interpretation

Perceiving

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Reference:

Jandt, Fred E. An Introduction to Intercultural Communication: Identities in a Global Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2010.

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Class work (5%)

Maximum 6 People

Imagine you own this media company

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