So I was on youtube and came across this video that reminded me of what we talked about when discussing culture jamming. The thesis of the article we read was “I explore the rhetorical strategies of an alternative sort of culture jammer—the prankster—who resists less through negating and opposing dominant rhetoric’s than by playfully and provocatively folding existing cultural forms in on themselves.”
The Barbie Liberation Organization
This video from the Ellen DeGeneres show reminded of me when we talked about culture jamming and how they changed the “voice box” of the army doll and the Barbie. I remember how we also talked about the Barbie and how she is the way she is and she looks too good to be true. Her proportions and features are not realistic. Well, this video I found from the Ellen Show is comical and also surprising.
I never heard of the rumor of the new Barbie coming out with tattoos and pink hair…so this was news to me. And I think that a lot of the Barbies that Ellen and her crew came up with related to television show and popular culture that we all watch today.
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