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Culture jamming

Index Culture jamming

Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements"Investigating the Anti-consumerism Movement in North America: The Case of Adbusters';" Binay, Ayse; (2005); dissertation, University of Texas to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. [1]

75 relations: Abbie Hoffman, Adbusters, Anger, Anti-consumerism, Appropriation (art), Art world, Artivism, Banksy, Billboard hacking, Billboard Liberation Front, Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions, Broadcast signal intrusion, Business Insider, Conformity, CrimethInc., Critical theory, Dérive, Détournement, Don Joyce (musician), Doppelgänger brand image, Douglas Rushkoff, Emotion, Fear, Flash mob, Gene, Germany, Guerrilla communication, Guerrilla Girls, Guy Debord, Happening, John Heartfield, Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, Kalle Lasn, Late capitalism, List of practical joke topics, Mainstream, Mark Dery, Mass media, Mass society, Media culture, Media literacy, Meme, Merry Pranksters, Mikhail Bakhtin, Minority influence, Naomi Klein, Negativland, No Logo, Operation Mindfuck, Over the Edge Vol. 1: JAMCON'84, ..., Paulo Freire, Progressivism, Radio jamming, Richard Dawkins, Ron English (artist), Satire, Seattle, Shame, Shock value, Situationist International, Situationist prank, Social movement, Sound collage, Spaßguerilla, Steal This Book, Street art, Subvertising, Tactical media, The Firesign Theatre, The New York Times, The Society of the Spectacle, The Yes Men, Vandalism, Vince Carducci, Where the Hell is Matt?. Expand index (25 more) »

Abbie Hoffman

Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist, anarchist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies").

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Adbusters

The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Anger

Anger or wrath is an intense negative emotion.

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Anti-consumerism

Anti-consumerism is a sociopolitical ideology that is opposed to consumerism, the continual buying and consuming of material possessions.

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Appropriation (art)

Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.

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Art world

The art world comprises everyone involved in producing, commissioning, presenting, preserving, promoting, chronicling, criticizing, and selling fine art.

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Artivism

Artivism is a portmanteau word combining art and activism.

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Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director.

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Billboard hacking

Billboard hacking or billboard hijacking is the practice of altering a billboard without the consent of the owner.

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Billboard Liberation Front

The Billboard Liberation Front practices culture jamming via altering billboards by changing key words to radically alter the message, often to an anti-corporate message.

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Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions

Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions, or B.U.G.A.U.P. ("bugger up") is an Australian subvertising artistic movement.

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Broadcast signal intrusion

Broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals.

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Business Insider

Business Insider is an American financial and business news website that also operates international editions in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, France, South Africa, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spanish and Singapore.

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Conformity

Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.

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CrimethInc.

CrimethInc., also known as CWC, which stands for either "CrimethInc.

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Critical theory

Critical theory is a school of thought that stresses the reflective assessment and critique of society and culture by applying knowledge from the social sciences and the humanities.

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Dérive

The dérive ("drift") is a revolutionary strategy originally put forward in the "Theory of the Dérive" (1956) by Guy Debord, a member at the time of the Letterist International.

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Détournement

A détournement, meaning "rerouting, hijacking" in French, is a technique developed in the 1950s by the Letterist International, and later adapted by the Situationist International (SI),Report on the Construction of Situations (1957) that was defined in the SI's inaugural 1958 journal as "he integration of present or past artistic productions into a superior construction of a milieu.

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Don Joyce (musician)

Donald S. Joyce (February 9, 1944 – July 22, 2015) was an American musician who was a member of the experimental music group Negativland.

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Doppelgänger brand image

A doppelgänger brand image is a company logo that has been modified in a pejorative manner.

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Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Mark Rushkoff (born 18 February 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian.

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Emotion

Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.

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Fear

Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat that occurs in certain types of organisms, which causes a change in metabolic and organ functions and ultimately a change in behavior, such as fleeing, hiding, or freezing from perceived traumatic events.

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Flash mob

A flash mob (or flashmob) is a group of at least 10 people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.

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Gene

In biology, a gene is a sequence of DNA or RNA that codes for a molecule that has a function.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Guerrilla communication

Guerrilla communication and communication guerrilla refer to an attempt to provoke subversive effects through interventions in the process of communication.

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Guerrilla Girls

Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world.

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Guy Debord

Guy Louis Debord (28 December 1931 – 30 November 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, philosopher, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI).

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Happening

A happening is a performance, event, or situation meant to be considered art, usually as performance art.

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John Heartfield

John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon.

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Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a Cuban-American Contemporary Artist.

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Kalle Lasn

Kalle Lasn (born March 24, 1942) is an Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor, and activist.

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Late capitalism

"Late capitalism" is a term used by Marxists to refer to capitalism from about 1945 onwards, with the implication that it is due to come to an end.

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List of practical joke topics

A practical joke (also known as a prank, gag, jape or shenanigan) is a mischievous trick or joke played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.

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Mainstream

Mainstream is current thought that is widespread.

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Mark Dery

Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959)Contemporary Authors Online, s.v. "Mark Dery" (accessed February 12, 2008).

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Mass media

The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Mass society

Mass society is any society of the modern era that possesses a mass culture and large-scale, impersonal, social institutions.

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Media culture

In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current Western capitalist society that emerged and developed from the 20th century, under the influence of mass media.

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Media literacy

Media literacy encompasses the practices that allow people to access, critically evaluate, and create media.

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Meme

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture—often with the aim of conveying a particular phenomenon, theme, or meaning represented by the meme.

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Merry Pranksters

The Merry Pranksters were cohorts and followers of American author Ken Kesey in 1964.

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н,; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.

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Minority influence

Minority influence, a form of social influence, takes place when a member of a minority group influences the majority to accept the minority's beliefs or behavior.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.

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Negativland

Negativland is an American experimental music band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s.

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No Logo

No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein.

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Operation Mindfuck

Operation Mindfuck or OM is an important practice in the Discordian religion.

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Over the Edge Vol. 1: JAMCON'84

JAMCON '84 was the first volume in the Over the Edge series, which distills portions of Negativland's radio program Over the Edge, broadcast on KPFA.

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Paulo Freire

Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (September 19, 1921 – May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of improvement of society by reform.

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Radio jamming

Radio jamming is the deliberate jamming, blocking or interference with authorized wireless communications.

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Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.

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Ron English (artist)

Ron English (born 1959) is an American contemporary artist who explores brand imagery and advertising.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Shame

Shame is a painful, social emotion that can be seen as resulting "...from comparison of the self's action with the self's standards...". but which may equally stem from comparison of the self's state of being with the ideal social context's standard.

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Shock value

Shock value is the potential of an action (as a public execution), image, text, or other form of communication to provoke a reaction of sharp disgust, shock, anger, fear, or similar negative emotions.

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Situationist International

The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists, prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution in 1972.

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Situationist prank

Situationist prank is a term used in the mass media to label a distinctive tactic by the Situationist International, consisting of setting up a subversive political prank, hoax or stunt; In the terminology of the Situationist International, stunts and media pranks are very similar to situations.

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Social movement

A social movement is a type of group action.

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Sound collage

In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as montage.

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Spaßguerilla

The Spassguerilla (fun guerrilla) was a grouping within the student protest movement of the 1960s in Germany that agitated for social change, in particular for a more libertarian, less authoritarian, and less materialistic society, using tactics characterized by disrespectful humour and provocative and disruptive actions of a minimally violent nature.

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Steal This Book

Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman.

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Street art

Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues.

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Subvertising

Subvertising (a portmanteau of subvert and advertising) is the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements.

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Tactical media

Tactical media is a term coined in 1996,Nayar, Pramod K. (2010) p.100David Garcia and Geert Lovink (1997), to denote a form of media activism that privileges temporary, hit-and-run interventions in the media sphere over the creation of permanent and alternative media outlets.

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The Firesign Theatre

The Firesign Theatre (also known as The Firesigns) was an American surreal comedy group who first performed live on November 17, 1966 on the Los Angeles radio program Radio Free Oz, first on station KPFK FM, then on KRLA 1110 AM, then on KMET FM through February 1969.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Society of the Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle (La société du spectacle) is a 1967 work of philosophy and Marxist critical theory by Guy Debord, in which the author develops and presents the concept of the Spectacle.

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The Yes Men

The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters created by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos.

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Vandalism

Vandalism is an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property".

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Vince Carducci

Vince Carducci is a cultural critic and social researcher and dean of undergraduate studies at College for Creative Studies.

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Where the Hell is Matt?

Where the Hell is Matt? is an Internet phenomenon that features a video of Dancing Matt (Matt Harding) doing a dance "jig" in many different places around the world in 2005.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming

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