{"id":481,"date":"2016-02-03T00:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/?p=481"},"modified":"2016-02-03T00:47:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T05:47:37","slug":"fake-professor-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/02\/03\/fake-professor-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Professor Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grappled with which Youtube video I wanted to upload here. I was torn between three videos: a video from William Derediewicz who focuses on the &#8220;disadvantages of an elite education;&#8221; a spoken word piece from Suli Breaks titled &#8220;Why I Hate College But Love Education;&#8221; and the selected video you see below. Regardless, I wanted to draw attention to how each critiques the educational system in America. So, I hope you enjoy the most comical critique of the three!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fake Professor on the First Day PRANK -- CHAMBER BOYS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wqks_R90ykI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, what did you think? Are you wondering how a prank, albeit amusing and relatable, points out hegemony in education and critiques the ideologies bred by it? Well, here&#8217;s what I think. I analyze this under Goldman&#8217;s assumption that &#8220;throughout history one of the primary goals of comedy has been to illuminate the ways in which we live in the world politically and to critique our legislature and laws.&#8221; This allows the video to function as an examination of classroom rhetoric and socially-constructed power dynamics in a classroom. Though clearly distinguished by the setting -a grand, populous lecture hall at what we could assume is a public university- wouldn&#8217;t we all fall for the same prank on the first day with a professor we have no prior knowledge of? Especially if the false professor appeared how we expect a professor to look. Wouldn&#8217;t we act accordingly because of conventions surrounding classroom decorum? I&#8217;ll leave that to you to discuss in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grappled with which Youtube video I wanted to upload here. I was torn between three videos: a video from William Derediewicz who focuses on the &#8220;disadvantages of an elite education;&#8221; a spoken word piece from Suli Breaks titled &#8220;Why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/2016\/02\/03\/fake-professor-prank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/media-culture-identity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}