What does it mean to say the audience is “active”?

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Interpersonal Communication, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: People receive messages mainly from a large variety of medias, as audiences they are consuming their service through media appliances. According to Fischoff, people will consume, including buy, rend lease or steal media for two reasons, which is to be informed and ...