These political remixes can turn serious issues into comedy or go the other way around by turning comedy into serious issues. There are many different political remix videos out there regarding thousands of various ideas/campaigns/etc old and new. Social media gives people the opportunity to see a lot of things that go on that we wouldn’t have known about if we didn’t have the technology we have today. Since social media is such a huge thing today many things get recorded and posted on YouTube, we can see many politicians’ speeches, but we can also see people of power such as cops, abusing their power by being too aggressive in certain cases. We all know the cast of Winnie the Pooh and the typical videos that go along with these characters, but since someone used the characters and changed the whole story line into something awful, we see it in a different light even though the characters still look the same. For example the video shown in McIntosh’s piece called Apocalypse Pooh turns the loving Winnie the Pooh and all the other characters into a horrific war zone where the characters are losing their insanity. By having people upload videos they remix from political platforms and changing the meaning of the original video can have major impacts of how people take from the meaning of the video. YouTube is such a popular social media outlet now a day many people spend hours watching various types of videos on YouTube. YouTube can definitely be used subversively to critique platforms or participation. The videos are interesting to watch and see how people use their own views and opinions to change the original video into what they want to share to others, to show others a possible other view of certain issues, or try and engage people to care more about certain things. These videos are many years old and people are restoring them and reviving them to send messages and some making them more modern. Looking at McIntosh’s piece A History of Subversive Remix Video Before YouTube: Thirty Political Video Mashups Made Between World War II and 2005, you see many different YouTube videos that are sending messages. Technology and social media is such a huge part of our lives now a day, so it’s interesting to see how McIntosh’s piece and how they used old videos to remix. Using different types of social media helps to get people’s concerns/ideas/etc out to the public faster and having the opportunity to possibly attract more awareness because of how much social media helps us. Some digital ways are by Facebook postings, writing blogs, creating YouTube videos or using Twitter by trying to have hashtags trend, etc. There are many ways in which we can use digital tools and platforms to think critically about our contemporary digital environment.
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