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Impact On Communication And Media By Post-Modernism

Posted on:2008-07-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K W LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2178360272470034Subject:Marxist philosophy
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"Post-Modernism"initiated in the fields of architectonics and poems which denote a style know from traditional and individuation. By 1960s, it denoted a kind of culture phenomena. Then, the word was endowed a conception of philosophy."Post-Modernism"has ambiguous meaning historically. While from Lyotard's < The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge>,"Post-Modernism Philosophy"became the mainstream of Post theory fields gradually. Present of Baudrillard, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze enrich the"Post-Modernism Philosophy". Habermas is the one who hate"Post-Modernism"and fight for modernism. Undeniably,"Post-Modernism philosophy"has become the symbol of our age and is affecting all levels from spirit to material.As the most complex branch of Humanities and social science, communication as an independent discipline only have several decades of history from its born. However, it is synchronous to the emergence of human society as a social phenomenon, and its impact of human society saturates with every cell imperceptibly. Communication learned a lot of theories from psychology, information theory and system theory at its beginning. With the post-modern philosophy in the sudden emergence, it also affect the communication's traditional theory, especially in McLuhan, Baudrillard and Frankfurt School. And in the research content areas, text and images'transformation affected by Post-Modernism is even more shocking. With network communication technology to transform human life, human's mode of communication has been a notable feature of post-modernism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Post-Modernism, Media Theory, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Frankfurt School
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