Audience and Genre

Audience and Genre

In a this new blog post, I will identify 2 specific, targeted groups of individuals that might be an audience for my next project. I will briefly describe how and why these people will be interested in my research. For each group, I will identify 2-3 specific places I might publish my research; I will describe both where and what type of genre/publication I would need to produce and publish. For each location and genre, I will provide links to 2-3 examples.

Audience 1: Parents

One target audience for the argument over childhood obesity would be their parents. Parents of the obese children would be interested because parents want to help their child get back to a healthy weight. For the most part, parents provide food for their children. Therefore, this topic should spark their interest. TIME Magazine, Shape Magazine, or the website WebMD would all be good places to publish. In this case, a magazine article, a website article, journal, or video would all work because they all provide the means to express the information. Also, they express the information in a manner that allows them to be interested because they are easy to read but of a higher educational level

Examples for Audience 1

Here is an example of an obesity article in TIME Magazine that discusses fat cells, and here is another example from TIME Magazine that illustrates the importance of family dinners to help with obesity. Also, here is an example of an article in WebMD about our culture in relation to childhood obesity, and here is a video from WebMD that aims to stop childhood obesity. Lastly, here is an article from Shape that discusses how urine can determine your obesity risk, and here is an article about fat-shaming.

Joe. "Obesity in Children." 7/12/06 via flickr. Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License.

Audience 2: Children

Another target audience would be the children who are obese. I chose this group because I think a lot of kids being informed about obesity could help them change their lifestyles. I know a lot of people do not know the urgency because they think it is part of a child growing up. However, childhood obesity has become very real and rapidly increasing This audience could be reached on a website the Centers for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) and Children's Minnesota. This would mean that the piece could be written as a newspaper article or in a blog.

Examples for Audience 2

Here is an example from CDC that provides information for children in an easy manner to follow; here is another example from CDC that discusses the trends in childhood obesity. Here is an example from children's Minnesota that provides an easy to follow diagram for children about obesity; here is an example from the same place that includes a bulleted, easy-to-follow list.