Communications and Media
‘Today’s media-saturated, information society is best theorised in terms of postmodernity.’ Critically respond to this statement by evaluating and comparing at least TWO postmodernist perspectives.
Essay should be 2500 words in length. DO NOT write significantly more or less than 2500 words. Use contemporary examples to support your argument.
Communications and Media
“Popular culture is made by the people, not produced by the culture industry” (Fiske 1989: 24). Critically explore different arguments concerning the power of media consumerism.
Essay should be 2500 words in length. DO NOT write significantly more or less than 2500 words. Use contemporary examples to support your argument.
Communications and Media
Critically evaluate whether media technologies make consumers ‘redundant as producers’ (Adorno and Horkheimer 1973) or enable consumer empowerment given their mass reproducibility (Benjamin 1973).
Essay should be 2500 words in length. DO NOT write significantly more or less than 2500 words. Use contemporary examples to support your argument.