Post-modern Media theorists
- Charlie Brooker – blurred boundaries, representation of ‘the real’
- Jean Baudrillard – hyper-reality and simulacra
- Christopher Butler – postmodernism: ‘a very short introduction’
- Francis Lyotard – micro narratives replacing macro narratives
- Noam Chomsky – against postmodernism, marxist readings
- Ferdinand de Saussure: signifier and signified are often arbitrary
- Mikhail Bakhtin – the ‘carnivalesque’
- Pierre Bourdieu – social class is constructed by cultural taste (and in turn by education)
- Dick Hebdige – subculture and the meaning of style
- Jacques Derrida – death of the author (audiences produce meaning)
- Fredric Jameson – on parody and pastiche
- Edward Said – on orientalism
- Stuart Ewan – style is political
- Daniel Strinati – we understand the world through the media
- Anthony Giddens – modernity, not post modernity
