I was offered this example of a "productive fake documentary on YouTube" by a friend, student, or colleague who responded when I crowdsourced my
FakeTube Project via social networks. I later blogged,
spoke, and
published on it (and other videos) as promised.
Parody, "a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule,"
[cit] is also a key tactic of
postmodernism, "because it foregrounds quotation and self-referentiality."
[cit]
Detournement and
recuperation ("radical" ideas and images being commodified and incorporated within mainstream society
[cit]) are terms from
Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (1967).
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