Journal 3

I chose the key term of "audience" for my first project and the artifacts I have chosen are
- A "typical" seating chart for a broadway theatre
- Twitter statistics on what kind of audiences view certain tweets (Such as President Donald Trump vs Chance the Rapper)
- A piece of Florida State University merchandise (such as a bumper sticker, pin, etc.)

All three of these artifacts have different meanings and usages when understanding the word audience. When I first think of the word audience, and this may be because I am a theatre major, I think of a theatre audience sitting and watching a show. When I really dissect that idea of an audience in a theatre the most important part is the logistics, which is the seating. The process of buying a ticket for a certain seat to see a certain perspective of a show can be difficult and expensive, so what do those seats really stand for? What about the people sitting in those seats? What kind of audience are they? I intend to delve deeper into that question in my project.
The second artifact being an ever changing thing will be the twitter statistics of the different viewers on Twitter and how their political opinions sway what tweets they see. A new study has come up discussing not a lot of information circulates on Twitter or Facebook correctly because of a "red" feed and a "blue" feed where only people of one party's affiliation sees other people's posts in the same party instead of an equal distribution of the informations. I'd like to take a controversial day such as President Trump's election or the Women's march that occurred right after to see who was logging onto twitter- their age groups, their political affiliations, their race, and so on. I think this type of analyzation of the word audience is much more broad and changing than the broadway theatre goer example.
The last artifact is the FSU merchandise which obviously depending on the audience can mean the greatest school in the world or the worst school in the nation with the best football team (an irrefutable fact ;)) The audience when it comes to things like universities or sports teams can have a drastic change in meaning when it changes.

The role of circulation will be vital to my project- especially when it comes to my second artifact. I'm excited to delve deeper into how these things shape rhetoric as a whole in terms of "audience" instead of its individual rhetorical importance.