Post Modernist

Question 1

Positive 3

Answer 1

•pop and high culture blurred
•more aware of diverse cultures
-more diversity helps develop identity

Question 2

Negitive 3

Answer 2

•surveillance
•digital footprint
•hyperreality - hard to distinguish between irl and tech

Question 3

IDENTITY
Giddens

Answer 3

Identities increasingly decentered
-less likely to share class gender sexuality

Question 4

IDENTITY
Pic and Mix
Sociologist

Answer 4

Swale

Question 5

IDENTITY
Postmodernists interested in what?

Answer 5

Online vs offline identities
Eg (hyper reality)

Question 6

IDENTITY
Finstas
Sociologist?

Answer 6

Orlando

Question 7

IDENTITY
Finstas
What are they?

Answer 7

• Relative pressure of looking greater
• real them to close friends
•boost popularity on main account (liking and reposting)

All for a sense of control

Question 8

IDENTITY
Finstas
Criticism

Answer 8

Elliot - fragmenting identities lead to fake identities and extreme split of offline and online

Finstas used for revenge porn and bullying

Question 9

FACEBOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sociologist?

Answer 9

Bjorklund and Hart

Question 10

FACEBOOK AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Bjorklund and Hart

Answer 10

Facebook is an autobiography we rewrite to fit N+V

Question 11

SURVEILLANCE
Sociologist?

Answer 11

Foucault

Question 12

SURVEILLANCE

Answer 12

Helps reduce crime

Question 13

Postmodernist criticisms

Answer 13

•Theoretical - lacks hard stats
•Exaggerates scale of social change and media’s role in identity
•doesn’t acknowledge power inequalities