Culture jamming is the destruction of a mass media or communication to illustrate a negative view of itself. We usually see culture jamming in an activist form, a social movement against commercialism. To be blunt, culture jamming is simply standing up for what we believe is wrong with a situation at hand. For example, if someone were to be a vegetarian and walked over to KFC and posted a picture of a dead chicken in a KFC bucket, and people were to notice the poster, that would be culture jamming. Standing up for what we see is wrong with the mass media and drawing attention to that problem by raising awareness where it all began.
Culture jamming sometime includes transforming a mass media into an ironic satirical illustration of itself using the medias original communication method of posters, commercials, billboards and much more. It is also known as media hacking, information warfare, terror art and guerilla semiotics all in one. Culture jammers are all about exposing politics and corporations that use the media to control our behaviors.
Mark Dery, The Merry Pranksters And the Art of the Hoax, December 23 1990,
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DF123EF930A15751C1A966958260, November 26, 2008.
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