Pastiche – a work of art or other visual project that imitates the style or character of the work of another artist.

Parody – a jokey version of something usually used to imitate or make fun of an original work.

Bricolage – the construction of different texts which forms one new text.

Intertextuality – the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text

Metanarrative – a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge.

Hyperreality – the inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality. Often seen in the media eg in TV when the reality being portrayed is not real.

Simulacrum – something that replaces reality with its representation.

Consumerist Society – a society in which people devote lots of time, energy and thought to ‘consuming’. The general view is that consumption is good and the more there is the better.

Fragmentary Identities – the idea that you can have different identities online and in real life.

Implosion –

Cultural Appropriation – the idea of taking aspects of one culture into another. eg. art, rituals, behaviour, music, style.

Reflexivity – the examination of one’s own beliefs. Thinking about your own thoughts.

Colonialism – the act of taking over another country politically, either fully or partially.

Post Colonialism – the study of the human consequences from the control of people and their land following being colonised.

Diaspora – a scattered population living in somewhere other than their place of origin. eg. the dispersion of Jews from Israel involuntarily.

BAME – Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (all ethnic groups except White groups).

Double Consciousness (Gilroy) – the internal conflict that a person feels living in a country that their ancestors are not from because of colonisation (African American). The conflict that people feel of not knowing which ethnicity they belong to.

Cultural Absolutism – the declaration of a societies culture to be of supreme ethical value.

Cultural Syncretism – when ideas from 2 or more cultures blend together to create a new custom.

Orientalism (Said) – style, artefacts or traits that are considered a characteristic of a certain place. eg. Asia is stereotyped in a way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude.

Appropriation – the adoption of element of one culture by members of another culture.

Cultural Hegemony – the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class who manipulate the culture of that society.

The Public Sphere (Habermas) – a virtual or imaginary community who basically mould peoples views and interests through the use of the media.

The Role of Public Service – the public reporting on events used to shape our cultures and define our national identities.

Broadcasting in terms of fair representation of minority groups/ interests – non-biased news that simply reports on news and tries to not take a specific viewpoint. eg. The I.