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Political video mashups are a primary example of citizen-generated content. These mashups allow the creator to form new meanings by juxtaposing two pieces of original source material; for example, someone may take footage of a politician's speech and 'mash it up' with footage from a popular reality television show.
Oct 11, 2023 · While political mashup videos came into existence long before social media and the internet (see e.g. McIntosh 2012), up to the 1990s they were an exclusive genre in the sense that, in order to create a mashup video, one had to have the know-how and facilities comparable to those of a professional media or video artist. In the early 2000s, in contrast, with the increased availability of ...
- Ari Häkkinen, Sirpa Leppänen
- 2014
Oct 5, 2009 · Political video mashups can act as tools of political advocacy, forms of political protest, and modes of political commentary. Finally, though they are already being co-opted by mainstream political campaigns, the paper addresses the potential of mashups to re-interpret political messages in ways that may encourage the active re-framing of political issues among 21st century citizens.
- Richard Edwards, Chuck Tryon
- 2009
Video mashups are part of a growing online remix culture, and typically fall under the designation of user–generated content. Using readily available software tools, the creator of a video mashup recombines two or more pre–existing videos and/or audio sources into a new, derivative work [ 2 ].
In this article, we focus on such mediated and playful voices of criticism: we will look in detail at two YouTube mashup videos, both of which ridicule politicians, the people in power who represent ‘the people’. The political figures targeted in the videos are the late Libyan dictator Muammar 1 Gaddafi and a Finnish populist politician ...
Nov 5, 2013 · Abstract. This article situates contemporary forms of video activism in online environments within a historical trajectory of radical film recruited for Left thinking and action. Focusing on the remix ethos and aesthetics of political mash-up videos, the article suggests how revisiting the analogue precursors of digital video may help ...
Oct 5, 2009 · 17 Edwards and Tryon state that "[j]ust as in the case of a video camera in the hands of a video activist at a street rally, engaged online users can produce mashups as a means for political ...
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