I figured the lecture would initiate a facinating blog topic discussion. I mean I never really thought of mash-ups, political or otherwise, as a form of narrative separate from what they orrigionally began as. I suppose the same could be said about most things. Once a type of media is taken and reconstructed to a certain creator (author) bias, it's no longer viewed or considered simply a peice of media, but now has a story with character all it's own. It's a really interesting concept. The fact that by mixing your own opinion into a series of cleverly edited news peices and music videos you can create your own real story. Your own narrative peice that has weight and significance in the eys of your audience.

I recently looked up some political mashups on YouTube, and came across one that alternates clips and soundbites of George W. Bush's numerous administration scandals with bits of Miley Cyrus's song "Nobody's Perfect". The irony of the mash-up was raw and unrelenting. I personally loved it because I happen to be a die-hard liberal. But regardless of your political affiliation, you have to respect what the creator of this mash-up accomplished simply by pairing two unexpected narrative forms to create an entirely new type of narrative.