Please keep at least one language enabled. || కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Which description best defines an active audience?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• An active audience interprets media rather than merely absorbing messages.
• Option A is correct because reception is shaped by social position, experience and cultural knowledge.
• Active audiences may accept, negotiate, resist or repurpose media meanings.
• The concept challenges theories that imagine a homogeneous and completely passive mass audience.
• Option A is correct because reception is shaped by social position, experience and cultural knowledge.
• Active audiences may accept, negotiate, resist or repurpose media meanings.
• The concept challenges theories that imagine a homogeneous and completely passive mass audience.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
In audience studies, reception refers primarily to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Reception concerns what audiences do with cultural and media texts after encountering them.
• Option B is correct because interpretation, pleasure, memory and use are central to reception studies.
• Reception may differ across communities and historical contexts.
• Transmission, ownership and budgeting belong to other stages of media production and circulation.
• Option B is correct because interpretation, pleasure, memory and use are central to reception studies.
• Reception may differ across communities and historical contexts.
• Transmission, ownership and budgeting belong to other stages of media production and circulation.
వివరణ:
Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which scholar is most closely associated with the concept of interpretive communities?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Stanley Fish developed the concept of interpretive communities in reader-response criticism.
• Such communities share interpretive strategies that shape how texts become meaningful.
• Henry Jenkins is associated with fandom and participatory culture, while Hall developed encoding and decoding.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Such communities share interpretive strategies that shape how texts become meaningful.
• Henry Jenkins is associated with fandom and participatory culture, while Hall developed encoding and decoding.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Participatory culture is best characterized by:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Participatory culture enables people to create, circulate, discuss and collaboratively develop cultural material.
• Option D is correct because participation usually involves accessible contribution, social connection and peer learning.
• It does not eliminate commercial platforms or professional producers.
• The concept is strongly associated with Henry Jenkins.
• Option D is correct because participation usually involves accessible contribution, social connection and peer learning.
• It does not eliminate commercial platforms or professional producers.
• The concept is strongly associated with Henry Jenkins.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Fan fiction is:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fan fiction extends, revises or reimagines existing fictional worlds and characters.
• Option A is correct because fans become cultural producers rather than remaining consumers alone.
• Fan works may fill narrative gaps, create alternative pairings or challenge canonical assumptions.
• They are distinct from corporate publicity and scholarly textual editing.
• Option A is correct because fans become cultural producers rather than remaining consumers alone.
• Fan works may fill narrative gaps, create alternative pairings or challenge canonical assumptions.
• They are distinct from corporate publicity and scholarly textual editing.
వివరణ:
Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which phrase best describes fandom?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Fandom involves sustained investment in a performer, text, genre, team or media world.
• Option B is correct because fans often share knowledge, rituals, emotional attachments and creative practices.
• Fandom may be individual, collective, online or offline.
• It is more than a momentary act of consumption.
• Option B is correct because fans often share knowledge, rituals, emotional attachments and creative practices.
• Fandom may be individual, collective, online or offline.
• It is more than a momentary act of consumption.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which activity most clearly demonstrates fan cultural production?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Remix videos reorganize existing media materials to create new interpretations or pleasures.
• Option C is correct because the fan actively produces and circulates a cultural text.
• Such activities demonstrate the productive dimension of fandom.
• Mere exposure, measurement or purchasing does not by itself constitute fan production.
• Option C is correct because the fan actively produces and circulates a cultural text.
• Such activities demonstrate the productive dimension of fandom.
• Mere exposure, measurement or purchasing does not by itself constitute fan production.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Celebrity fandom is most accurately understood as:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Celebrity fandom centres on a mediated public persona produced through performances, interviews, publicity and social media.
• Option D is correct because fans form emotional and interpretive attachments to this publicly circulated identity.
• The relationship is usually parasocial rather than a direct friendship.
• Celebrity fandom operates across many media platforms.
• Option D is correct because fans form emotional and interpretive attachments to this publicly circulated identity.
• The relationship is usually parasocial rather than a direct friendship.
• Celebrity fandom operates across many media platforms.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
A parasocial relationship is:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A parasocial relationship is an experienced sense of closeness to a performer or media personality who does not personally know the audience member.
• Option B is correct because the relationship is mediated and structurally one-sided.
• Celebrity culture and repeated media exposure can intensify such attachments.
• The concept helps explain forms of audience pleasure and emotional investment.
• Option B is correct because the relationship is mediated and structurally one-sided.
• Celebrity culture and repeated media exposure can intensify such attachments.
• The concept helps explain forms of audience pleasure and emotional investment.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which statement best explains audience pleasure?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Audience pleasure can emerge from many emotional, aesthetic and social sources.
• Option C is correct because viewers may enjoy recognition, fantasy, expertise, humour or community participation.
• Pleasure does not erase ideology or guarantee agreement with preferred meanings.
• Audiences may enjoy a text while criticizing or resisting parts of it.
• Option C is correct because viewers may enjoy recognition, fantasy, expertise, humour or community participation.
• Pleasure does not erase ideology or guarantee agreement with preferred meanings.
• Audiences may enjoy a text while criticizing or resisting parts of it.
వివరణ:
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which feature is most characteristic of digital fan communities?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Digital fan communities connect dispersed participants through forums, social media, archives and messaging platforms.
• Option A is correct because digital networks accelerate discussion, collaboration and circulation.
• These communities may also face moderation policies, algorithms and commercial data collection.
• Online participation therefore combines opportunity with institutional constraints.
• Option A is correct because digital networks accelerate discussion, collaboration and circulation.
• These communities may also face moderation policies, algorithms and commercial data collection.
• Online participation therefore combines opportunity with institutional constraints.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which of the following is NOT normally associated with participatory culture?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Participatory culture encourages contribution, sharing and learning among participants.
• Option D is not associated with participation because it restricts audiences to passive consumption.
• Participants may write, edit, remix, review, curate or organize communities.
• The boundary between producer and consumer can become less rigid, though it does not disappear completely.
• Option D is not associated with participation because it restricts audiences to passive consumption.
• Participants may write, edit, remix, review, curate or organize communities.
• The boundary between producer and consumer can become less rigid, though it does not disappear completely.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Active-audience theory recognizes that media meanings may be interpreted differently by different groups.
Statement II: It assumes that institutional power has no influence on interpretation.
Statement II: It assumes that institutional power has no influence on interpretation.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because audiences interpret texts through different identities, experiences and cultural codes.
• Statement II is incorrect because media institutions, platforms and dominant discourses still shape available meanings.
• Active-audience theory need not claim unlimited interpretive freedom.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because media institutions, platforms and dominant discourses still shape available meanings.
• Active-audience theory need not claim unlimited interpretive freedom.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Fan communities can establish shared norms for interpreting a media text.
Statement II: Such shared norms resemble the operation of interpretive communities.
Statement II: Such shared norms resemble the operation of interpretive communities.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because fan communities develop shared vocabulary, preferred readings and standards of evidence.
• Statement II is correct because interpretive communities shape meaning through collectively learned strategies.
• Fan disagreements may still occur within these shared frameworks.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement II is correct because interpretive communities shape meaning through collectively learned strategies.
• Fan disagreements may still occur within these shared frameworks.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Fan fiction can function as a resistant cultural practice.
Reason: It may revise marginalizing narratives or give greater agency to neglected characters.
Reason: It may revise marginalizing narratives or give greater agency to neglected characters.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because fan fiction can challenge the priorities and exclusions of an official narrative.
• The Reason is correct because fans may centre marginalized identities, change endings or redistribute narrative agency.
• These revisions explain how fan production can become resistant.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because fans may centre marginalized identities, change endings or redistribute narrative agency.
• These revisions explain how fan production can become resistant.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
వివరణ:
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Participatory culture automatically removes inequalities among all users.
Reason: Access, visibility and influence may still be shaped by technology, platform governance and social privilege.
Reason: Access, visibility and influence may still be shaped by technology, platform governance and social privilege.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is incorrect because opportunities to participate are not distributed equally.
• The Reason is correct because access, digital literacy, algorithms, moderation and social privilege affect participation.
• Participatory culture may broaden expression without abolishing hierarchy.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• The Reason is correct because access, digital literacy, algorithms, moderation and social privilege affect participation.
• Participatory culture may broaden expression without abolishing hierarchy.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about fandom:
1. Fans may create new cultural texts.
2. Fans may organize collective interpretations.
3. Fandom is necessarily free from commercial influence.
4. Fan practices may produce pleasure and belonging.
Which statements are correct?
1. Fans may create new cultural texts.
2. Fans may organize collective interpretations.
3. Fandom is necessarily free from commercial influence.
4. Fan practices may produce pleasure and belonging.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because fans produce fiction, art, videos, reviews and archives.
• Statement 2 is correct because communities develop shared readings and debates.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because fandom often interacts with media industries, merchandise and platforms.
• Statement 4 is correct because participation can create enjoyment, identity and social connection.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because communities develop shared readings and debates.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because fandom often interacts with media industries, merchandise and platforms.
• Statement 4 is correct because participation can create enjoyment, identity and social connection.
• Hence, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about digital fan communities:
1. They can connect geographically dispersed users.
2. They can archive and circulate fan works.
3. They exist entirely outside corporate platforms.
4. They may develop rules of conduct and interpretation.
Which statements are correct?
1. They can connect geographically dispersed users.
2. They can archive and circulate fan works.
3. They exist entirely outside corporate platforms.
4. They may develop rules of conduct and interpretation.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because online networks connect participants across geographical boundaries.
• Statement 2 is correct because digital archives and platforms facilitate circulation.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because many communities rely on commercially owned platforms.
• Statement 4 is correct because communities often establish moderation rules and interpretive norms.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because digital archives and platforms facilitate circulation.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because many communities rely on commercially owned platforms.
• Statement 4 is correct because communities often establish moderation rules and interpretive norms.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Active audience
2. Interpretive community
3. Fan fiction
4. Participatory culture
List II
I. Creative rewriting of an existing fictional world
II. Shared strategies for producing meaning
III. Audience as socially situated interpreter
IV. Networked creation, sharing and collaboration
List I
1. Active audience
2. Interpretive community
3. Fan fiction
4. Participatory culture
List II
I. Creative rewriting of an existing fictional world
II. Shared strategies for producing meaning
III. Audience as socially situated interpreter
IV. Networked creation, sharing and collaboration
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Active audience matches the audience as a socially situated interpreter.
• Interpretive community matches shared strategies for producing meaning.
• Fan fiction matches creative rewriting of an existing fictional world.
• Participatory culture matches networked creation, sharing and collaboration.
• Therefore, option A gives the correct matching.
• Interpretive community matches shared strategies for producing meaning.
• Fan fiction matches creative rewriting of an existing fictional world.
• Participatory culture matches networked creation, sharing and collaboration.
• Therefore, option A gives the correct matching.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Henry Jenkins
2. Stanley Fish
3. Celebrity fandom
4. Audience resistance
List II
I. Interpretive communities
II. Participatory culture and fan studies
III. Reworking or rejecting preferred meanings
IV. Emotional investment in a mediated public persona
List I
1. Henry Jenkins
2. Stanley Fish
3. Celebrity fandom
4. Audience resistance
List II
I. Interpretive communities
II. Participatory culture and fan studies
III. Reworking or rejecting preferred meanings
IV. Emotional investment in a mediated public persona
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Henry Jenkins matches participatory culture and fan studies.
• Stanley Fish matches interpretive communities.
• Celebrity fandom matches emotional investment in a mediated public persona.
• Audience resistance matches reworking or rejecting preferred meanings.
• Thus, option B is the correct matching code.
• Stanley Fish matches interpretive communities.
• Celebrity fandom matches emotional investment in a mediated public persona.
• Audience resistance matches reworking or rejecting preferred meanings.
• Thus, option B is the correct matching code.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which sequence best represents the transformation of a media consumer into a participatory fan?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A person generally first encounters a media text and develops an emotional or interpretive investment.
• Interaction with other fans can deepen knowledge, identity and shared practice.
• The participant may then produce reviews, fiction, art, videos or community resources.
• Option D therefore presents the most coherent sequence.
• Interaction with other fans can deepen knowledge, identity and shared practice.
• The participant may then produce reviews, fiction, art, videos or community resources.
• Option D therefore presents the most coherent sequence.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A fan community agrees that a television character's silence should be interpreted as political resistance and uses this reading in discussions and fan fiction. This most clearly illustrates:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The community has developed a shared strategy for interpreting the character's behaviour.
• Option C is correct because interpretive communities organize what counts as meaningful evidence and plausible interpretation.
• The reading is collectively reinforced through discussion and cultural production.
• It need not reproduce the producer's intended meaning.
• Option C is correct because interpretive communities organize what counts as meaningful evidence and plausible interpretation.
• The reading is collectively reinforced through discussion and cultural production.
• It need not reproduce the producer's intended meaning.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A fan edits scenes from a film to expose the marginalization of a minor character and circulates the video online. The activity combines:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The fan challenges the original hierarchy of representation by centring a marginalized character.
• The edited video is also a newly produced cultural object.
• Option B is correct because the activity combines resistant interpretation with creative production.
• Digital circulation allows other users to debate, share or transform the intervention.
• The edited video is also a newly produced cultural object.
• Option B is correct because the activity combines resistant interpretation with creative production.
• Digital circulation allows other users to debate, share or transform the intervention.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which correctly matched pair is most appropriate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Audience pleasure is correctly matched with enjoyment produced through identification, fantasy, recognition or belonging.
• Participatory culture encourages contribution rather than compulsory silence.
• Fan fiction is often unofficial and transformative rather than always authorized.
• Interpretive communities depend on shared conventions rather than their absence.
• Participatory culture encourages contribution rather than compulsory silence.
• Fan fiction is often unofficial and transformative rather than always authorized.
• Interpretive communities depend on shared conventions rather than their absence.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best integrates active audiences, fandom and participatory culture?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Active audiences interpret media through situated experiences rather than receiving meanings mechanically.
• Fandom can organize shared pleasure, knowledge, identity and resistance.
• Participatory culture enables audiences to create and circulate cultural works, but platforms and inequalities still matter.
• Option A provides the most balanced and comprehensive conclusion.
• Fandom can organize shared pleasure, knowledge, identity and resistance.
• Participatory culture enables audiences to create and circulate cultural works, but platforms and inequalities still matter.
• Option A provides the most balanced and comprehensive conclusion.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. An audience that interprets, selects and uses media meanings in socially situated ways సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The processes through which audiences interpret and use cultural texts సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Stanley Fish సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Relatively low barriers to creative expression, sharing and informal mentorship సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Fiction created by fans using characters, settings or worlds associated with existing cultural texts సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. A sustained cultural affiliation involving shared knowledge, emotion and practice సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Creating a transformative video that remixes scenes from a series సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. A relationship in which media audiences invest meaning and emotion in a publicly constructed persona సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: B. A one-sided sense of intimacy that an audience member develops with a media personality సమాధానం: B.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: C. Pleasure may arise from identification, fantasy, recognition, mastery or social belonging సమాధానం: C.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: A. Networked communication across distance and rapid circulation of fan-created material సమాధానం: A.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. A strict division in which audiences can only consume సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: C. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: C.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Assertion is incorrect, but Reason is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. 1-III, 2-II, 3-I, 4-IV సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. 1-II, 2-I, 3-IV, 4-III సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: D. Media exposure → emotional or interpretive investment → community interaction → cultural production సమాధానం: D.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. An interpretive community shaping shared meaning సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: B. Audience resistance and cultural production సమాధానం: B.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Audience pleasure — enjoyment shaped by identification, fantasy or belonging సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Audiences can interpret media actively, form communities and become cultural producers within unequal institutional conditions సమాధానం: A.