Political protests, citizen empowerment, and activism are no different in this respect. Introductionīy 2013, it has become obvious that social media is an ever more important factor in various walks of life. In these ways, mashups can create opportunities for contributions to a stronger and healthier participatory democracy. They challenge the regimes of truth: types of discourses accepted and naturalized as true by a particular social constellation.
Especially satirical mashups engage in meme war and aim at disarming and reshifting of established political conceptualizations, wordings, and rhetoric. And where, for instance, state censorship is tight, mashups have become a relatively safe route for voicing political critique. Today mashups are an increasingly popular social media practice, as they get watched, commented on, circulated, and remediated at best to a viral and memic extent. While mashup videos can be seen as entertainment, they can also function as a medium for political critique via parodic and satirical deconstruction. This article focuses on mediated and playful voices of criticism by looking at two mashup videos on YouTube, both of which ridicule the people in power who claim to represent ‘the people’.
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