• Consume media for one hour (this might be a good time to try out an unfamiliar social media platform, though it's not required). Keep a note of every time someone sings or says something that you immediately recognize could be interpreted in different ways by different people. You can include commercial breaks in this. 
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• What might lead one person to interpret it one way, and another to view it differently? 
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• What differences in someone's background or experiences could be at play? 
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• Was the ambiguity on purpose, or would the creator of the message view it as a problem? And finally: what is the potential implication of this ambiguity? 
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• How might it affect the viewer or their reaction to the message?

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