Essays about: "hyperreality"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the word hyperreality.

  1. 6. Talking in circles. A semiotic analysis of sustainability reporting in the Swedish heavy industries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Claes Arvid Hyllienmark; [2021]
    Keywords : sustainability reporting; post-structuralism; semiotics; structuralism; strategic communication; hyperreality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : How publicly traded companies perform with regards to environmental sustainability is receiving increasing attention both by investors and in society in general. Annually released sustainability reports are an important tool for public companies to disclose information relating to their environmental performance. READ MORE

  3. 7. “Imitating Reality”: An Analysis of “American Psycho”

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sana Sadraddin Mahiddin; [2020]
    Keywords : American Psycho; Postmodernism; Narratology; serial killers;

    Abstract : This paper analyzes Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991), and more specifically, the protagonist-narrator Patrick Bateman. He is analyzed through the theoretical framework known as narratology, and more specifically, the designation of “unreliable narrator,” in order to analyze the interplay between the character and the postmodernist society of which he is a product. READ MORE

  4. 8. Beyond Morality : Alternative Gay Narratives in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking and Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Makz Bjuggfält; [2017]
    Keywords : Mark Ravenhill; Shopping And Fucking; Dennis Cooper; The Sluts; Gay Male Violence; Gay Capitalism; Gay Consumerism; Gay Hyperreality; Gay Simulacra; Gay Civilisation; Gay Authenticity; Blank Fiction; Transgressive Literature; In Yer Face; Cool Britannia.;

    Abstract : The gay male emerged as a visible public consumer during 1990s, when the LGBTQ movement in the United Kingdom and the United States was marked by conflicting commercial and political motives, heightened by the AIDS crisis. The cultural tension surrounding the gay male subject was reflected through various literary expressions. READ MORE

  5. 9. analysing ISIL`s propaganda

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ)

    Author : jamil walli; [2015]
    Keywords : ISIL; Globalization; propaganda; religious; perceptible; psychic; aura; awe; shock; projection; alienation; adversary; caliphate; radical; glocal; semiotics; CDA;

    Abstract : The emergence of “the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant” was surprising not only because of its rapid expansion geographically across Syria and Iraq, but also because of its global influence. That`s represented in its magnetic power through gravitating large numbers of Muslim youth, from almost all around the world. READ MORE

  6. 10. The art of falsifying

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Kenneth Rönholt; [2015]
    Keywords : Authenticity; social media; public relations; framing; advisor; political communication; Baudrillard; Eco; hyperreality; grounded theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Top politicians are increasingly using social media to create perceptions of authenticity but social media challenges taken-for-granted notions of authenticity, as people cannot see who is the creator of the perceived authenticity. Applying a grounded theory approach, this study conducted in-depth interviews with communication advisors assigned to Danish top politicians and developed a theory of how communication advisors can use social media to create perceived authenticity of top politicians. READ MORE