Bricolage: Role of Media

This entry engages with questions like: What does bricolage theoretically mean? How has bricolage traveled across different academic disciplines? How did it make its way into media studies research? And what are examples of bricolage? Answers are provided through two case studies. The first case study, on the Song of the Grass Mud Horse, shows how censorship in China becomes a creative force that inspires the proliferation of all kinds of bricolage that help evade or mock the system. The second case study, on the fictive Dutch TV station Lucky TV, shows how bricolage is both a cheap way of producing media contents and a way to generate new meanings by recycling fragments.