Flipping the audience script: An activity that integrates research and audience analysis

Chris Lam, Mark Hannah

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Abstract

This article describes a flipped classroom activity that requires students to integrate research and audience analysis. The activity uses Twitter as a data source. In the activity, students identify a sample, collect customer tweets, and analyze the language of the tweets in an effort to construct knowledge about an audience’s values, needs, and attitudes. The article first presents an overview of audience analysis frameworks. It then presents a step-by-step tutorial for integrating the activity. The authors also provide business communication instructors with resources for implementing the activity including video lectures, handouts, and instructional guides.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)28-53
Number of pages26
JournalBusiness and Professional Communication Quarterly
Volume79
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2016

Keywords

  • Audience analysis
  • Data analysis
  • Flipped classroom
  • Research
  • Social media
  • Twitter

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Business and International Management
  • Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)

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