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spectatorship  

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  • People watch media and view and read other kinds of texts. Spectatorship includes the processes of watching and listening, identification with characters and images, the various values with which viewing is invested, and how these ideas continue even after the spectator has stopped viewing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Communication Theory; Spectatorship]

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