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1
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Consumer Culture

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A culture and society in which individual and collective identity is constructed in material acts of economic exchange, such as shopping.

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Cultural Capital

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The knowledge and information that informs people’s cultural consumption in a post- modern society.

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Hegemony

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The dominant way of thinking about society and culture enforced by the ruling class.
Example - how the popular kids at school determine what is cool and what is not.

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Hyper-reality

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The collapse of the distinction between the real and the simulated.

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Ideology

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A system of belief or ideas

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Multi-accentuality

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The way in which meaning changed according to context, over time.

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Parody

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To copy something in a humorous way.

8
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Pastiche

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

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Post modernity

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The semiotic landscape of the society dominated by consumer culture and information technology.

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Signifier and the signified

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The basic units of semiotic analysis.

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What are semiotics

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The study of signs and symbols and their use of interpretations.

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What is a signifier?

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A signs physical form and something that represents a concept such as a flag.

13
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Simulacrum

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A representation of a person or thing.