culture jamming
culture jamming noun: any of various methods of modifying mass media (especially advertisements) to convey a different message.
Noun
culture jamming (usually uncountable, plural culture jammings)
- Any of various methods of modifying mass media (especially advertisements) to convey a different message.
- A growing number of activists believe the time has come for the public to stop asking that some space be left unsponsored, and to begin seizing it back. Culture jamming baldly rejects the idea that marketing — because it buys its way into our public spaces — must be passively accepted as a one-way...1999, Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
- Culture jamming is, at root, just a metaphor for stopping the flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set.1999, Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America, New York: Eagle Brook, →ISBN, →OL, page 107
Forms of culture jamming
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Origin of culture jamming
From culture jammer, coined by sound collage band Negativland in their album JamCon '84 (1984), by metaphor to jamming a radio signal.
Questions about culture jamming
- What does culture jamming mean?
- Culture jamming means any of various methods of modifying mass media (especially advertisements) to convey a different message.
- What part of speech is culture jamming?
- Culture jamming is a noun.
- What is the plural of culture jamming?
- The plural of culture jamming is culture jammings.
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