The most recent thing to a media audience that I can remember was  within a cinema. The first time I ever had a moment of conjoined enthusiasm from everyone was from Star Wars: The last Jedi. I’m used to the audience remaining silent throughout the picture, but this movie made people react loudly. Some were positive, some were negative and it was a different experience to say the least. It was interesting because being a movie buff myself and my interest in film as a whole, hearing other people’s reactions live was different from when I usually hear about them afterwards through messages or fanboy screamers online. The negative was obviously being unable to hear over the noise, distracting the moment and instead focusing on the ramble happening around me

Watching a movie with an audience has always been a way to evoke a stronger emotional reaction, making the experience more enjoyable and the environment more friendly. Ever since the introduction of the laugh tracks for sitcoms, the connection through the screen to the watching audience becomes thinner and the reactions are strengthened. Laugh tracks originated as not only a fix, and sometimes replacement, for an un-engaged live-audience, but also as a way to engage an at-home audience into a more-traditional, communal, and theater-like experience (Jonathan Hogeback)  For example, when a joke is made in a sitcom, the show will put a recorded sound of a live-audience laughing along with the show. Whether the laughing is real or just a recording, it doesn’t matter as hearing someone else laugh will most likely make the audience laugh. Have you ever come across a joke that you didn’t laugh at alone, but then if you watched it with an audience, you spontaneously laugh. This is what a media audience can influence , and why a cinematic interaction can make a movie connect with people without having to physically interact with them.

Whether watching a movie alone or with an audience, with the example of a laugh track, the screen has a way of connecting with the audience through hearing other emotional reactions. Despite being artificial, sensibly edited laugh tracks are found by television studios to induce a positive audience response, as their use is usually accompanied by higher ratings and increased audience retention (Jonathan Hogeback). My audience experience was a cinematic experience with a live reaction that had the same results, influencing a stronger emotional response through accompanied reactions.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-television-shows-use-laugh-tracks