RECEPTION AND SPECTATORSHIP STUDIES

FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS TO UNDERSTAND STUDENTS AS VIEWERS OF AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCES

Abstract

This theoretical assay aims at discussing issues that help understand students as viewers of audiovisual materials, based on principles from Reception and spectatorship Studies. Choice of this theme is due to the wide use of audiovisual materials in teaching, although by not maintaining observance of how students relate to the audiovisual work, rich knowledge about how the teaching-learning process is constituted is sometimes lost. In addition, Reception and spectatorship Studies represent an axis that contributes to understanding this dynamics. Throughout elaboration of this study, there is a discussion about the active character of the students' reception, proceeding to the understanding that reception is a place that interacts with other spaces within a communication process and, finally, understanding that students are differentiated viewers.