postmodernism

• Boudrillard


  •desires created by media

  •simulacra: make belief goods

  •people have no real world experience: experienced by media
• Lyotard


  •knowledge no longer a tool of authorities

  •choice + freedom

  •truth is imposed by power + authority
• modernity


  •industrialisation

  •enlightenment: scientific ideas

  •Fordism: standardised work

  •Marxism + Functionalism

  •intersectionality
• evaluation


  :) challenges structural theories, recognises societal change: internet

  :( Marxists: capitalism is root of new risks not tech, not everyone media saturated
• time + space compression

  •neither matter due to media