This document discusses features of new media texts and postmodernism. It lists several key concepts seen in new media texts, including style over substance, audience participation, confusion over time and space, hyperreality, and blurring the lines between reality and fiction. It also provides some examples of new media texts and platforms that exhibit these postmodern features, such as Facebook, MMORPGs, computer games like GTA, and Twitter.

1. ‘New Media’ Texts
How are new media text Post Modern
What do new media text say about our
society….

2. And other MMORPGS

3. What were the best ideas?
Text Post Mo Features Post Mo Features Post Mo Features
Meanings
Style over Substance
Comment on society
Parody (lock Miss in a room)
Pastiche – the Katy Perry pack
Confusion over time and space
Hyper reality – new reality
Braekdown between high and
pop culture
Hyper reality of self!!!!
Time/space – Instantaneity
Audience participation
Web 2.0
Celebrity obsessed
Style over substance
Micro narratives
Super Hyper reality
Style over substance
Time/Space
Instantaneity
Micro narrative
Never ending narrative
No ‘truth’
Blurring of reality
Hyper reality of self
Create a ‘new self’
Constructed
Instantaneity – all accessing at
once
Micro narrative
Parody/ Pastiche (less)
Comments on society - self
aware/ reflective
Time/Space
6 sec – not a reality
Style over substance
Web 2.0
Instantaneity
Commercially driven
Intertextuality
Digital manipulation – hyper
reality of self
Micro narrative
Audience participation
‘Truth’
To express emotions
Hyper reality
Time and space
Non liner narrative
Truth??????
Web 2.0
Audience particupation but does
exist without you
Mix of genres
Borrows from film
Instantaneity
Cult of celebrity Style over substances Hyper reality of self

4. Research Task…..
• Do you want to work alone….. Or as a pair….
• Hazel and Jake - Facebook
• Shannon and Cristina - MMORPG
• Danny and Aidan – Computer Game - GTA
• Mark and Daisy - Twitter