Showing these virtual experiences in a public exhibit also allows for audience trials, as immersive media continues to find its way into the mainstream.
And so it was that those who'd tuned in hoping to catch a repeat of A Place in the Country found themselves serving as the test audience for the trial of two new Fox shows: Embarrassing Dads Say the Darndest Things, and Are You Smarter Than A Selectively Deaf Media Mogul?
According to Young, he first heard Edwards speak in 1998 before an audience of fellow trial lawyers in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The real audience for the trial, gay rights advocates say, is Congress, where legislation supported by the Obama administration to repeal don't ask, don't tell is inching forward.
Like a chastened studio exec who has just watched a trial audience trash the ending of his movie, I return home each year with a lengthy "to do" list of edits.
The exact Twitter audience for the trial is difficult to measure: the journalists using the system had several thousand followers among them, but the dispatches could be forwarded and seen on some news organizations' Web sites and, during the verdict, on television.
Researchers writing qualitative research for a trial audience may feel that they must conform to the quantitative terminology and methodology of the trial.
When theatre comes with a stipulated age range, I'm a firm believer in following the makers' recommendation – after all, they (mostly) know who they're aiming for, and tend to test the work out with trial audiences first.
They created a program called "courtwatchers," where women would pack the audience during rape trials, putting silent pressure on judges and lawyers to recognize the gravity of the charge.
In theory, we could have used an alternative design of presenting an audience in all trials while starting the tests with or without audience in alternating order; however, in such a design, prior exposure to the audience male (when presented during the first part) could still affect the focal males' behavior during the second part of the tests.
