Participatory Graffiti as Invitational Rhetoric: The Case of O Machismo |
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Authors: | Benjamin R Bates |
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Institution: | School of Communication, Ohio University, Lasher 009, 47 West Union Street, Athens, OH 45701. E-mail: batesb@ohio.edu |
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Abstract: | This article engages the Brazilian O Machismo graffiti project as an example of invitational visual rhetoric. Although most understandings of graffiti as communication consider it to be a persuasive artistic form, O Machismo invites viewers to respond to its invitation to help complete the art project and collectively share in co-creating its message. Through an examination of the responses to the invitation that emerge to resist machismo and promote non-patriarchal understandings, the article offers some ideas about how an invitational visual rhetoric expands our previous understandings of graffiti. |
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Keywords: | Brazil Graffiti Invitational Rhetoric Machismo Rio de Janeiro |
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