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Paper 8 Media

Paper 8 Media

Q What is speed culture, and how does Gottschalk examine it in the article? Describe what Gottschalk's data show regarding speed at the pictorial level and the textual level--discuss each level separately. What does he suggest are the implications of speed culture? Please remember to include an application section where you define and discuss two class concepts and how they apply to the reading.

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The reality in postmodern society is characterized by a culture that concentrates on consumptions of contemporary and fast mass media services based on the economy. In the digital age's speeds culture, where the speedier is preferable everything becomes easier but also less significant (Gottschalk 1999). Gottschalk analyzes in the paper how this postmodern culture, or digital age, is going to a whirling place of existence with a speedier regime. Gottschalk pointed out various strategies that advertisers employed to “inscribe speed as a normal and desirable quality” of ourselves and our everyday life (Gottschalk 1999).