Whatcha need to know for your future quiz a nd t ropes Barbie Liberation Organization Think about the rhetoric in the video What are some ways the BLO is communicating persuasively What is the BLO doing Are they pranking rumoring or ID: 423718
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Christine Harold Reviewed
Whatcha
need to know for your future quiz
a
nd
t
ropesSlide2
Barbie Liberation Organization
Think about the rhetoric in the video.
What are some ways the BLO is communicating persuasively?
What is the BLO doing? Are they pranking, rumoring, or
subvertising
? What’s the difference?Slide3
Jamming Concepts
Pranking,
Subvertising
, Rumor, Rhetoric, Linguistics,
Interdisciplinarity
.Slide4
Tropes
A common pattern in a story or a recognizable attribute in a character that conveys information to an audience.
Damsel in distress – a woman needs to be rescued (usually by a dude).
My brain is big – brains or foreheads are exaggerated to show intelligence. Big brain=big smarts.
Children are innocent -
captures the idea that
children are never naturally evil.Slide5
Tropes have power
They can perpetuate stereotypes.
Smurfette
principle –
is the tendency for works of fiction to have exactly one female amongst an ensemble of male characters, in spite of the fact that roughly half of the human race is female. Slide6
Tropes have power
They can be used to view one as an object rather than a subject – a thinking and feeling person.
I
nstrumentality - refers
to the practice of using virtual women as tools or props for the player’s own purposes
.
Video games or interactive media afford audiences a participatory experience.Slide7
Tropes have power
Background Decoration: The
subset of largely insignificant non-playable female characters whose sexuality or victimhood is exploited as a way to infuse edgy, gritty or racy flavoring into game worlds. These sexually objectified female bodies are designed to function as environmental texture while titillating presumed straight male players.