A listener is someone who listens.
A listener is a person who listens to something . The term comes from the verb hear , which refers to an individual's ability to perceive a sound . Human beings hear thanks to the auditory system.
A frequent use of the notion of listener is found in the media, more precisely in radio . Listeners are those who listen to a radio program or a certain station. For example: "The famous entertainer announced that he will raffle a television among the listeners who approach the radio door" , "Our station has the morning program with the most listeners" , "The journalist argued with a listener on the air and was sanctioned" by the owners of the radio .
radio listeners
Radio listeners are equivalent to readers of a newspaper or viewers of a program. These are the people who are on the other side of the media; that is, they consume it. The number of listeners reveals the rating or popularity of a program or station.
Listeners are so important on the radio that it is common for programs to reserve specific spaces for them so that they can show their opinion or testimony on a specific issue. Thus, for example, there are listener emails , which are email addresses where they can send their complaints or recommendations, as well as listener requests . These usually request that certain songs or others be played or that certain topics be addressed.
Radio listeners are the consumers of this means of communication.
A type of student
The concept of listener is also used to name the individual who attends a class, but who is not registered as a student . This means that the listener is present in a classroom or place of study only to hear the teacher's explanations and lectures, without complying with an attendance regime or having the same rights and obligations as regular students: "For several years For months I have been a listener in the sociology classes taught at the university" , "Ramón was a listener in the mechanics course until he got bored" , "I'm sorry, but I can't take exams for the listeners: if you want to participate in the evaluation , you will have to register .
When an economic crisis occurs, the number of hearing students in universities increases considerably. These are young people who, due to their little or no family financial capacity, cannot afford to pay tuition. However, they do not want to waste a year. Therefore, with the support of the teachers, they go to class and take the exam, the grade being saved so that it is officially recorded when they have already paid the relevant fees.
Book «Hearer of the word»
Within the field of literature, we would have to state that there is a well-known book on religious matters that responds to the title "Listener of the word" . It was published in 2009 and is the work of Karl Rahner . In it, which is a mixture of anthropology, philosophy and religion, the figure of the human being is analyzed as a person who listens to the theories, ideas and beliefs that surround him.
From time immemorial until today, the figure of man has been unraveled in this sense. In this way, it allows us to show an evolution regarding how he increasingly becomes skeptical of different ideas and theories that make him known.