Abstract
This article reexamines the complexities of the reception of meaning by audience members who experience media texts. It argues for the articulation model of meaning, which asserts that meaning is a momentaty event, denies that meaning is a transfer process, and characterizes media experiences as intertwined and blurred fantasy and reality experiences that serve to confirm identity for the receiver. The articulation model resolves key issues in the cultural studies debates. Framed by an articulation analysis, an empirical study of adolescent romance readers demonstrates the articulation model's power to yield additional and “corrective” insights into meaning.
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