The work of Joey Skaggs does a great job of demonstrating the artistic nature of “the prank” in comparison to the aggressive nature of “the sabotage.” Sabotaging insinuates an idea of adding a contradicting component to an existing system to destroy that system’s existing motion. A prank, by contrast, utilizes existing components in a creative […]
Archives for February 2015
Culture Jamming: Making a Point or Making a Mess?
It’s no secret that in today’s society, we are constantly being bombarded by advertisements whether it comes from a TV, walking around a school campus or just reading a magazine. Some have gotten more attention in recent years due to their powerful messages making fun of or mocking companies and corporations. Culture jamming has been […]
South Park Pokémon Parody
In layman’s terms, a parody can be described as an imitation that is exaggerated in order to create a comic effect. In the reading by Jonathan Gray, Harries defines parody as involving “recontextualising a target or source text through the transformation of its textual (and contextual) elements, thus creating a new text. This conversion–through the resulting […]
Culture Jamming and Kotex
A lot of advertisements have a message that is not relatable but glamourized to make you want to purchase whatever they are trying to sell to you. Sometimes we do not even realize how obscure the message is until other companies or organizations make ad parodies to bring to life what the original advertisement is […]
30 Rock Loves and Hates Product Placement
The television show 30 Rock is a master class in media education and critique. Being a show about working a show gives it a lot of room to make fun of, and air gripes about the way television is created and seen, but it doesn’t stop there. As 30 Rock is a show that is […]
Photoshop makeup — Beauty ad parody
What exists as one of the most worrisome implications of various media are the specific messages that the content may deliver to viewers (especially younger viewers) and the influence it may have and the standards that it may set. This week’s readings carried the theme of deconstructing a large and seemingly indivisible entity like a […]
Using Humor as a Disguise
This week’s articles were both very interesting because it touched upon one of my favorite genres, humor. In Gray’s article, Television Teaching: Parody, The Simpsons, and Media Literacy Education, he wrote about how tv uses parodies and humor as a vessel to teach about topics that people would not usually associated with humor. In Harold’s […]
Media Parody
Gray’s article defines media literacy as “one’s understanding of the medium, what one knows or expects of its structure, genres, and tropes, and how one has been trained to make sense of its messages, style, and rhetoric.” (Gray, page 223) This is something that is discussed frequently in my classes, but somehow is never covered […]
The Beauty of Culture Jamming by Kristen Ferrani
The article that most successfully caught my attention was “Pranking Rhetoric: “Culture Jamming” as Media Activism,” by Christine Harold. The reason I enjoyed reading this article and learning about the art of culture jamming is because I am an advertising major. Therefore, I am most likely going to eventually begin a career that will essentially […]
television education and culture jamming
Everyday we can see a lot of types of advertisements. All the advertisements tried to attract the attention of the audiences. Culture jamming can be seen as the movement that mixes politics with graffiti, and satire with paint. Sometimes I think it can be seen as an art form. everyone can have their own understanding […]