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Monthly Archives: March 2007
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Blogiversary
So three years since I started this blog. Been fun. 5,976 visits, (2,379 unique). Here’ s a photo taken today
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
Indeed tis a very sad day, Jean Baudrillard has died aged 77. A personal favourite of mine An excellent obituary by the Guardian here, another by the Beeb The great man’s books: Baudrillard , Jean, Chris Turner (Translation). Impossible Exchange. Verso Books. New York, December 2001, 160 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 1859846475. Baudrillard, Jean, Julia Witwer [...]
Post-modernist theorists argue that:
a. The audience are dupes b. The media is apolitical c. Audiences resist and subvert dominant meanings* d. Capitalism is the motor of history
Hyperreality is an experience of:
a. Early modernity b. A unitary meaning of signs c. An abolition of the distinction between real and imaginary* d. Fragmented class consciousness
Hypodermic needle models
Just seen this question and answer (taken from a textbook called Being Sociological). Approaches to media that see the audience as a passive mass of spectators are known as: Hypodermic needle models I find it quite interesting as there appears to be an ever increasing shift away from this model. I have been noticing more [...]