Terminology Match Up

1. Post Modern
E. A historical period in Western culture after the Second World in which society became dominated by information technology.

2. Post Modernity
F. The knowledge and information that informs people's cultural consumption in a post modern society.

3. Parody
A. To copy something in a humorous and tongue in cheek way.

4. Pastiche
D. A copy without an original.

5. Hyper-reality
K. The collapse of the distinction between the real and the simulated.

6. Consumer Culture
B. A culture and society in which individual and and collective identity is constructed in material acts of economic exchange, e.g. shopping.

7. Simulacrum
H. To copy something without humour, irony, or anything else that communicates difference.

8. Cultural Capital
I. The dominant way of thinking about society and culture enforced by the ruling class.

9. Signifier and the signified
G. The basic units of semiotic analysis.

10. Multi-accentuality
L. The way in which meaning changes according to context and over time.

11. Ideology
J. A system of belief or ideas.

12. Hegemony
C. The semiotic landscape of a society dominated by consumer culture and information technology.