Implosion

Question 1

What is implosion?

Answer 1

Means to inwardly collapse - in post modern terms, means that some conventional ideas have collapsed (e.g. race, gender, etc)

Question 2

What is the role of implosion in the media?

Answer 2

Challenges myths + dominant ideology, makes people think in an improved way

Question 3

How are important social distinctions effected by implosion?

Answer 3

They suffer implosion differences of gender, class, politics, + culture that dissolve in a world of simulation where individuals construct identities