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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Susan Ryan for her patience and persistent pushing when I needed it most, Rod Parker for his confidence in my ability to do this, and H. Parrott Bacot for his guidance, which I could not have done without. I would also like to thank my parents for always greeting me with open arms (and open wallets), Rusty for simply always being there, Camile for her never-ending kind words, and Jill for her 24-hour tech support. I would not have survived this without you. ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……………………………………………………………… ii ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………………………. iv INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………... 1 A HISTORY OF IDENTITY CORRECTION…………………………………………. 6 The BLO, SimCopter, and the Emergence of RTMark……………………………. 7 RTMark and GWBush.com Versus George W. Bush………………………….….. 14 The Yes Men and Its Parody Websites……………………………………………. 16 The Yes Men as the World Trade Organization…………………………………... 20 The Yes Men and Dow……………………………………………………………..26 Public Estimation of the Yes Men………...……………………………………….. 28 THE YES MEN AND THEIR PRECEDENTS………………………………………… 32 The Art of Parody…………………………………………………………………. 33 Tactical Obfuscation Vs. Parody: DowEthics.com and Mad-Dow-Disease.com…. 34 Situationism and Détournement…………………………………………………... 36 Video Guerrillas and Institutional Critique………………………………………. 38 ACTIVISM IN THE INFORMATION AGE…………………………………………… 46 Culture Jamming and Hacktivism………………………………………………… 46 The Instant Information Age……………………………………………………… 55 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………62 BIBLIOGRAPHY………………………………………………………………………… 67 VITA……………………………………………………………………………………… 74 iii
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along with the works of Rodriguez d
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available in print form but widely
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hierarchies and the rigid structure
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The Instant Information Age What ma
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according to Debord, has stripped u
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hands of the white, Anglo-Saxon est
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appeared in public, as well as in c
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into submission by a barrage of med
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Their feature film, The Yes Men, is
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Aaron, Kenneth. “The
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Electronic Disturbance Theater. “
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Myerson, Sylvie. “The Art of Conf
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World Trade Organization. “WTO DG
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