Postmodern theory, passive

• Postmodern

  Audience is provided with many meanings to any social/cultural aspect of life > there isn't an aspect of life where there's one objective truth that everyone experiences

  • audience picks and chooses between a range of messages and meanings
• Postmodern

  Media takes place of reality

  • development of media > everyday is filled with images and messages competing
  • media presents many images and stories woven into life > boundaries between reality and media are blurred > media becomes reality
• Baudrillard

  Everything has been replaced by simulacra (replacement of reality, hyper-reality), hyper-real images seem more real

  • made up images used to give people impression they could tell reality from a simulacrum when they couldn't, e.g. AI
  • in media, information/image can be distorted intentionally to make it seem correct
• Evaluation

  • Writing is deliberately obscure, dismisses reality of suffering and inequality
  • Too theoretical, hard to find evidence that would prove a postmodernist wrong, truth is relative