Notes from lesson

Soap doc - Mockumentry - e.g. The Office
Holding a mirror to the audience. Hyperreal. e.g. Big Brother
Playing with identity - guest stars, playing themselves or a character.

Production <-> Reception (audience) <-> referent (signifiers) <-> Production

media starts representing the media.


Postmodern media -

cultural identity - self referential, global media, effects everyones identity, facebook identity.

online media - only 20% of the worlds population have access to the internet.

Democracy - political apathy, moral panic, we media, hyperreal.