post modernism theorists

Question 1

Jean Lyotard

Answer 1

Postmodernism is ‘incredulity towards metanarratives.’
There is no longer one dominant narrative but rather lots of competing micronarratves
Traditional media creates, ‘the tyranny of the metanarrative.’ metanarratives should give way to localised ones.

Question 2

Fredrick jameson

Answer 2

‘postmodern media is just another set of signifiers to be played with.’

Question 3

Jean Baudrillard

Answer 3

‘We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning.’ There is no one way of understanding the world. Real is a simulation of reality

Question 4

Angela McRobbie

Answer 4

postmodernism is ‘the comming together of those woes voices were historically drowned out by the modernist metanarratives of mastery.’
Postmodern media allows alternative viewpoints

Question 5

Jurgen Habermas

Answer 5

Fragmentation, everyone has their own truth.
‘post truth democracy would no longer be a democracy.’
For effective communication opposite parties need to recognise a consensus.