COMM 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gulf War, Simulacrum, Hyperreality
20 Jan 2017
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Apply media theory to specific case study and reflect on how would be interpreted in light of theory. Baudrillard idea of simulation: the gulf war did not take place (new kind of war, televised and filtered) In the middle east and north africa, the era of cnn and changed the way people consumed news. Because of the plan that went into the gulf war, the journalist were able to implant themselves in these places. Welcome to the desert of the real : youtube video. The matrix was the reality they were living in but that was not the true reality. Baudrillard and the matrix: youtube video. Disneyland as metaphor of 3rd order simulation: (https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=4wzgds7fjfk) First order: there is a representation of the real, and it is obviously artificial. Second order: boundary between reality & representation blurs, difference between representation & reality is not clear. Third order: representation precedes the real, & produces it.
