Features of a Post Modern Media product include:
- Irony
- Parody or Homage: Homage = paying respect to a genre, style, person or product. Parody = making fun of a genre or style, product or person
- Bricolage: Sampling and using older media products in your own
- Intertextual references
- Fragmented Narrative
- Self Reflexivity
- Common Themes: What if, the future, technology, human existence
- Loss of Reality: More artifice, less reality
- Lack of Verisimilitude: Verisimilitude = Amount of Realism
Baudrillard's Theory of Postmodernism
- Reality vs Artificial
- Artificial copies = Simulacra Simulacra become hard to tell apart from reality = Hyperreality
- A simulacrum (singular) is a copy of something with very little link to reality
- Audiences prefer Simulacra to real life
