Postmodernism - Jean Baudrillard

Question 1

Baudrillard’s Postmodernism theory says that everything we used to have around us in media was what?

Answer 1

Reality - we used to see real people, real locations and real stories

Question 2

Baudrillard says that we are currently in a world of which kind of reality?

Answer 2

Artificial

Question 3

Simulacrum

Answer 3

An artificial copy of something with very little link to reality

Question 4

Baudrillard believes we are surrounded by simulacra in media. What does this mean?

Answer 4

We are surrounded by copies of reality that are so artificial that they aren’t reality at all to the point where artificial realities are hard to tell apart from reality - hyperreality

Question 5

What is meant by hyperreality in relation to Baudrillard’s Postmodernism theory?

Answer 5

We can’t tell the difference between the simulacra and reality

Question 6

True/False: Audiences often prefer simulacra to real life

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True/False: Audiences can always tell the difference between simulacra and real life

Answer 7

False, they often cannot

Question 8

True/False: There can be simulacra within the narrative inside a media product

Answer 8

True