Journal 7

I think that audience in writing has a much bigger impact than many people realize. The changes the audience makes to a piece of writing, I think, usually go unnoticed. We've been trained to adapt to the changes and it comes so naturally. For instance, you wouldn't write a paper for a class the same way you would write on your friend's Facebook wall, but the change you make is unintentional. 

In the media, the audience is a major influence in the way something is written or portrayed. The age or lifestyle or background the specific media is speaking toward changes the way that media is presented and displayed in an effort to better relate to that audience.