Essays about: "Baudrillard"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the word Baudrillard.

1. 1. ”The shrieking of nothing is killing me” : Representations of society of the spectacle and hyperreality in David Bowie’s lyrics

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Mariann Gabrielsson; [2023]
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   Abstract : This text explores how the lyrics of David Bowie can be applied as supporting the critique against hyperreality and society of the spectacle, as articulated by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. This is done by focusing on three questions: 1) what elements in Bowie’s lyrics support Debord and Baudrillard, 2) how can these elements function to portray Bowie as primarily a sociologist and secondly an artist, and 3) what are the benefits of using fiction (in this case lyrics) as empirical material? From a theoretical framework building on Debord’s society of the spectacle and Baudrillard’s focus on hyperreality, I will apply a two-folded methodology of sociology through literature and socio-poetics. READ MORE

3. 2. But why? A study into why upper secondary school students use ChatGPT : Understanding students’ reasoning through Jean Baudrillard’s theory

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Aliser Bulduk; [2023]
   Keywords : ChatGPT; Survey; Baudrillard; Hyperreality.;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to better understand the reasons as to why upper secondary school students use ChatGPT, how history teachers are dealing with this technology and how these developments will affect the history subject. This was done via a survey for students at a upper secondary school in Gothenburg, Sweden, and semi-structured interviews with two teachers at the same school. READ MORE

4. 3. A visual representation of the Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Perspective of Ukrainian and Russian Milbloggers on Telegram

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier; Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Julia Mazur; [2023]
   Keywords : Russo-Ukrainian War; Russia; Ukraine; Telegram; Mediatization; Media; Visual representation;

   Abstract : The theory of mediatized war implies that any study of conflict that takes place in modern times must also consider the impact of the media within that conflict, especially including new media and communication technologies. Images as visual representations of war have become a part of the information warfare and used to create narratives rooted in the culture of media witnessing (Mortensen) but sometimes entirely divorced from reality (Baudrillard’s simulacrum). READ MORE

5. 4. "What stunning brilliance, what modern veracity:" Jean Baudrillard's America as a Reluctantly Romantic Document

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Viktor Kovacs; [2022]
   Keywords : Jean Baudrillard; America; Romanticism; modernity; postmodernity; hyperreality; disenchantment; sublime; nature; Languages and Literatures;

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6. 5. Fangoso Lagoons: Hyperreality and Imaginary Stations in The Crying of Lot 49

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Shane Glennon; [2022]
   Keywords : Postmodernism; hyperreality; imaginary station; Jean Baudrillard; Umberto Eco; Disneyland; Thomas Pynchon; The Crying of Lot 49; Fangoso Lagoons;

   Abstract : This essay analyses Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) in relation to postmodern literary theory, specifically the concepts of hyperreality and imaginary stations. In Simulacra and Simulation (1981), Jean Baudrillard proposes that the Disneyland theme park in California is an imaginary station that conceals the fact that it is the world outside of Disneyland that is hyperreal. READ MORE