baudrillard postmodernism

• pastiche 


  the making of new media texts from other components
• bricolage 


  a media product that is made from other media texts or borrows signs from them

  e.g cutting out words from a newspaper - creates something new.
• intertextuality

  The way in which media texts refer to and incorporate subtle references to other media texts
• hyperreality

  Merging of the real and media worlds to the point where it is difficult to distinguish between them.

  The real world appears to have less meaning than the constructed world so that it becomes more than real.
• simulacrum

  • A media text which attempts to give the feeling of reality by creating something that is highly artificial.
  • It attempts to replicate the feelings and emotions rather than recreate reality. E.g. a television drama - lupin, the responder, social media, the sims
• simulation

  • A media text which attempts to recreate a real event.
  • Representations that imitate a subject, a location or experience.
  • E.g. the real-time broadcast of a sporting or important event, google street view, VR headsets
• implosion

  • describes the collapse of boundaries between the real and simulations. Implosion means that meaning is lost and the audience loses their grip on what the real actually is.
  • when people find out something is not like the mediated version they have consumed from media products.
  • Something that u expect, based on media consumption, is not the same as reality 
  • Instead of creating new meanings, the media simply reproduces old signs until they become disconnected from the original and reality.
  • e.g magazines, video games
• “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”