Search the World's Largest Database of Information Science & Technology Terms & Definitions
InfInfoScipedia LogoScipedia
A Free Service of IGI Global Publishing House
Below please find a list of definitions for the term that
you selected from multiple scholarly research resources.

What is Postmodernism

Chapter 2
Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management
Used as a definition in the sense of post modernism and beyond and is carried out together with the problematization and even the negation of the basic concepts and perspectives of modern thought and culture.
Published in Chapter:
Modernization and Accountability in Public-Sector Administration: Turkey Example
Serkan Ökten (TR Prime Ministry General Directorate of Press and Information, Turkey), Elvettin Akman (Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey), and Çiğdem Akman (Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3731-1.ch002
Abstract
The issue of studying has been determined as the development of the Turkish public sector in terms of modernization and accountability. In this chapter, it is aimed that postmodernism and new public administration concepts as well as the effects of modernization and accountability concepts coming to the public in the field of public administration are aimed. These impacts will be examined by examining the legal arrangements related to political and administrative accountability as well as the use of new legislative acts such as e-government and ombudsman. Modernization and accountability in public sector management in Turkey can be evaluated under the following headings; Political Accountability, Public Accountability, Accountability at Public Administration, Accountability at Public Employees, Accountability as Different Citizens, Citizenship Accountability.
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
More Results
Chapter 5
Blurred Borders Between Good and Evil in Today's “Lesser Evil World”: The Witcher as Book, Game, and Netflix Series
Associating a text to another text and connecting similar or related content of media/literature.
Published in Chapter: Blurred Borders Between Good and Evil in Today's “Lesser Evil World”: The Witcher as Book, Game, and Netflix Series; From: International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 3
Change of Good and Evil Concepts in Fantasy Genre
The movement that emerges as a criticism to modernism. The term used to describe the era after modern period.
Published in Chapter: Change of Good and Evil Concepts in Fantasy Genre; From: International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 4
Chingiz Aitmatov's Grand Narrative
Postmodernism is considered as the universe of irregularity and indeterminacy, and also contains a stand against the thinking mode of modernism. Everything considered holy by modernism is questioned by postmodernism. Postmodernity glorifies fragmentation, dividedness, difference, and authenticity. The concept of identity is discussed in the axis of differences and similarities.
Published in Chapter: Chingiz Aitmatov's Grand Narrative; From: Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 11
Postmodern Discourse in Digital Advertising: A Study on “Deneysel Bankacilik” Advertising Series
Postmodernism has many different meanings and contexts, mostly indicating some dramatic change from modernity – the way that things used to be. Postmodernism itself would deny there is a single right definition.
Published in Chapter: Postmodern Discourse in Digital Advertising: A Study on “Deneysel Bankacilik” Advertising Series; From: Handbook of Research on New Media Applications in Public Relations and Advertising
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 4
Public Engagement and Policy Entrepreneurship on Social Media in the Time of Anti-Vaccination Movements
A reaction to Modernism, the philosophy of questioning and abject truth and a shift of focus on interpretation, that is facts are meaningless until humans attach meaning and make judgements accordingly.
Published in Chapter: Public Engagement and Policy Entrepreneurship on Social Media in the Time of Anti-Vaccination Movements; From: Using New Media for Citizen Engagement and Participation
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 618
Risk Regulation Regimes of Radio Frequency Information Technology
A new consideration in public administration that tends to ignore productivity and profitability constraints in favor of more humanistic indicators of preference.
Published in Chapter: Risk Regulation Regimes of Radio Frequency Information Technology; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 581
Political Context Elements in Public Policy of Radio Frequency Information Technology and Electromagnetic Fields
A new consideration in public administration that tends to ignore productivity and profitability constraints in favor of more humanistic indicators of preference.
Published in Chapter: Political Context Elements in Public Policy of Radio Frequency Information Technology and Electromagnetic Fields; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 3
Social Creativity
A late 20th-century philosophical movement characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, and relativism.
Published in Chapter: Social Creativity; From: Sustaining Creativity and the Arts in the Digital Age
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 9
Straddling Two Worlds: Immigrant Adolescents' Construction of Identities
Intellectual, philosophical, ideological stance that rejects the possibility of reliable knowledge, denies the existence of a universal, stable reality, generally suspicious of reason.
Published in Chapter: Straddling Two Worlds: Immigrant Adolescents' Construction of Identities; From: Handbook of Research on Advancing Language Equity Practices With Immigrant Communities
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 132
Critical Realist Information Systems Research
A position critical of realism and rejects the view of social sciences as a search for over-arching explanations of the social world. Has a preference for qualitative methods.
Published in Chapter: Critical Realist Information Systems Research; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 23
Post-Orientalist Comments by Contemporary Women Photographers
The prefix 'post' means beyond / after, beyond / after Modernism. It aims to define the transformation process that started in Western societies in the 1960s and started to be experienced in social life, cultural field and art environment with the effect of communication and technological development. Postmodernism has been influential in architecture, philosophy, literature, and fine arts. Lyotard, Habermas, Jameson, Harvey, Boudrillard et al. They are thinkers and critics.
Published in Chapter: Post-Orientalist Comments by Contemporary Women Photographers; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 5
Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”
Movement that emerged as a kind of ethos against the cultural stagnations of its time, characterized by a critical culture and a permanent questioning of the established rules. It was an avant-garde method of putting forward the unexpected and the estranged against the dictatorship of the commonplace.
Published in Chapter: Cronocaos: An Alternative Approach to “Preservation”; From: Conservation, Restoration, and Analysis of Architectural and Archaeological Heritage
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 250
Framing Political, Personal Expression on the Web
Postmodernism is a category of thought within literature, architecture, and the arts, emphasizing complexity, chaos, and indeterminacy as a response to the modern tradition which emphasizes progress, determinism, and singular narratives. Within investigations of interaction on the Web, postmodernism informs the notion that data are always framed and relational. Postmodern perspectives advocate that there is no observational, transferable, or generalizable truth inherent to human behavior.
Published in Chapter: Framing Political, Personal Expression on the Web; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 1
What the Post-Truth Era Means: A Short Glimpse
There is no single truth in postmodernism; there is more than one truth. Indicates an uncertain period.
Published in Chapter: What the Post-Truth Era Means: A Short Glimpse; From: Narrative Theory and Therapy in the Post-Truth Era
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 7
Autoethnography in Information Science Research: A Transformative Generation and Sharing of Knowledge or a Fallacy?
A theory or movement that that challenges a reconsideration of modern assumptions of culture, identity, history, and research.
Published in Chapter: Autoethnography in Information Science Research: A Transformative Generation and Sharing of Knowledge or a Fallacy?; From: Handbook of Research on Connecting Research Methods for Information Science Research
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 64
Developing a Socially Responsible Approach to IT Research
Postmodernism is a philosophical perspective of the late 20th century characterized by open-endedness and a consideration of multiple points of view which must be considered in the evaluation of the assumptions and social constraints underlying lived reality.
Published in Chapter: Developing a Socially Responsible Approach to IT Research; From: Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Technology
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 17
Reconciling Homosexuality and Spirituality in Africa as a Heresy and Survival Strategy: A Critical Study of House of Rainbow (LGBT Church) in Nigeria
Movement in a variety of fields (including arts, architecture, religion, philosophy, truth and culture among others) which preaches relativism and rejects absolutes and objectivity. Often considered a reaction to modernism, postmodernism rejects the existence of any ultimate principles (a cardinal characteristic of the modern mind). It therefore denies the notion of ultimate philosophical, or religious truth that explains all realities for everybody. It rather advocates reliance on sceptical and relativistic method for the observation of things in the universe.
Published in Chapter: Reconciling Homosexuality and Spirituality in Africa as a Heresy and Survival Strategy: A Critical Study of House of Rainbow (LGBT Church) in Nigeria; From: Multiculturalism and the Convergence of Faith and Practical Wisdom in Modern Society
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 20
Fantasies of Returning to Nature as an Escape From Culture: The Case of The Beach (2000)
In the 1960s, as a result of the failure of Modernism to provide the welfare and peace it promised, the process in which all the structures institutionalized with Modernism were opened to discussion, and tendencies that opened up space for polyphony by rejecting fixed definitions.
Published in Chapter: Fantasies of Returning to Nature as an Escape From Culture: The Case of The Beach (2000); From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 4
Critical Realism
A position critical of realism and rejects the view of social sciences as a search for over-arching explanations of the social world. Has a preference for qualitative methods.
Published in Chapter: Critical Realism; From: Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 2
A Theoretical Conceptualization of the Hidden Curriculum in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Theoretical orientation that is based on the critique of modern society and try to understand the role of the society in the development of unique personality.
Published in Chapter: A Theoretical Conceptualization of the Hidden Curriculum in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century; From: Implicit Pedagogy for Optimized Learning in Contemporary Education
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 3
Public Engagement and Policy Entrepreneurship on Social Media in the Time of Anti-Vaccination Movements
A reaction to Modernism, the philosophy of questioning and abject truth and a shift of focus on interpretation, that is facts are meaningless until humans attach meaning and make judgements accordingly.
Published in Chapter: Public Engagement and Policy Entrepreneurship on Social Media in the Time of Anti-Vaccination Movements; From: Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 3
Popular Culture and Communication Ethics: An Assessment on Umberto Eco's Numero Zero
Postmodernism, which rejects a scientific rationality-based theory of progress and its only correct understanding, opposes the single and inclusive world views, whether political, religious, or social. In this context, the concept contradicts with a single and absolute understanding of truth.
Published in Chapter: Popular Culture and Communication Ethics: An Assessment on Umberto Eco's Numero Zero; From: Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 3
The Implicit Pedagogy and the Hidden Curriculum in Postmodern Education
Is an expression widely used to mark the epoch of the second half of the 20 th century and, in the narrow sense, to mark some aspects of thinking and the creation of that epoch. It refers to various interpretations and the criticism of absolute truths and identities in wide range but among others in philosophy, art, architecture, history and culture.
Published in Chapter: The Implicit Pedagogy and the Hidden Curriculum in Postmodern Education; From: Implicit Pedagogy for Optimized Learning in Contemporary Education
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 1
The “Subaltern” Will Speak: Investigating Portrayals in the Acclaimed OTT Series of India and Pakistan
Postmodernism is a broad cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that emerged in the mid-20 th century as a response to and rejection of certain aspects of modernism. It is characterized by skepticism towards grand narratives, it questions authority, emphasizes individualism, and recognizes subjective knowledge, influencing diverse fields.
Published in Chapter: The “Subaltern” Will Speak: Investigating Portrayals in the Acclaimed OTT Series of India and Pakistan; From: Exploring the Impact of OTT Media on Global Societies
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
Chapter 15
The Colorful Leak of Postmodernism in the Turkish Cinema Onur Ünlü Narratives: The Reflection of the Concept of Postmodernism in Cinema
It is a concept that reveals its ideas and theories in a way that works contrary to modernist approaches and thoughts.
Published in Chapter: The Colorful Leak of Postmodernism in the Turkish Cinema Onur Ünlü Narratives: The Reflection of the Concept of Postmodernism in Cinema; From: Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age
Full Text Chapter Download: US $37.50 Add to Cart
eContent Pro Discount Banner
InfoSci OnDemandECP Editorial ServicesAGOSR