Post-modern Media

• What are the different versions of post-modernism (historical period, style, theoretical approach)?
• What are the arguments for and against understanding some forms of media as post-modern?
• How do post-modern media texts challenge traditional text-reader relations and the concept of representation?
• In what ways do media audiences and industries operate differently in a post-modern world?

Candidates might explore combinations of:
How post-modern media relate to genre and narrative across two media, computer/video games, virtual worlds, augmented reality and new forms of representation, post-modern cinema, interactive media, social media and social networking, reality TV, music video, advertising, post-modern audience theories, aspects of globalisation, parody and pastiche in media texts or a range of other applications of post-modern media theory.