culture jamming

noun

1. a form of political and social activism which, by means of fake adverts, hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, etc, draws attention to and at the same time subverts the power of the media, governments, and large corporations to control and distort the information that they give to the public in order to promote consumerism, militarism, etc

Example Sentences

The friends had fun at the Museum of Pop Culture, jamming in the sound booths.

From Seattle Times

The “culture jamming” tactic used by the Yes Men took its cue from Guy Debord and the so-called situationists of the 1960s, who advanced social and political critique.

From Scientific American

In the 1980s and 1990s culture jamming unified activists around a common cause and set of tactics, such as making minor edits of an advertisement to drastically change its meaning.

From Scientific American

English started out in the 1980s in New York City, as a purveyor of the culture jamming movement, where he pasted up thousands of public artworks featuring his own political statements on top of advertising billboards.

From The Guardian

The author of "Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Binge," Kalle Lasn is one of the leading figures in the "culture jamming" movement, an international grassroots effort that uses the logic of commercial images to critique corporate hegemony and rampant consumerism.

From Salon