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PRONUNCIATION OF CULTURE JAMMING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CULTURE JAMMING

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Culture jamming is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CULTURE JAMMING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Culture jamming

Culture jamming is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It purports to "expose the methods of domination" of mass society to foster progressive change. Culture jamming is a form of subvertising. Many culture jams are intended to expose apparently questionable political assumptions behind commercial culture. Common tactics include re-figuring logos, fashion statements, and product images as a means to challenge the idea of "what's cool" along with assumptions about the personal freedoms of consumption. Culture jamming sometimes entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium's communication method. Culture jamming is usually employed in opposition to a perceived appropriation of public space, or as a reaction against social conformity. Prominent examples of culture jamming include the adulteration of billboard advertising by the BLF and Ron English and the street parties and protests organised by Reclaim the Streets.

Definition of culture jamming in the English dictionary

The definition of culture jamming in the dictionary is 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.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CULTURE JAMMING

cultural anthropology
cultural cringe
cultural lag
Cultural Revolution
culturally
culturati
culture
culture clash
culture fluid
culture gap
culture lag
culture medium
culture shock
culture vulture
culture-fair test
culture-free test
cultured
cultured pearl
cultureless
culturist

WORDS THAT END LIKE CULTURE JAMMING

becoming
brimming
bumming
computer programming
dimming
drumming
gumming
humming
jamming
programming
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rimming
skimming
slamming
slimming
spamming
stemming
strumming
summing
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trimming

Synonyms and antonyms of culture jamming in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «culture jamming» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CULTURE JAMMING

Find out the translation of culture jamming to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of culture jamming from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «culture jamming» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

文化干扰
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

culture jamming
570 millions of speakers

English

culture jamming
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संस्कृति ठेला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ثقافة التشويش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

культура помех
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

culture jamming
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংস্কৃতি জ্যামিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brouillage culturel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Budaya jamming
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Culture Jamming
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

培養ジャミング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

문화 전파 방해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Budaya jamming
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gây nhiễu văn hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலாச்சாரம் நெரிசல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संस्कृती जॅमिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kültür sıkışması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

culture jamming
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zagłuszania kultury
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

культура перешкод
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

culture jamming
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κουλτούρα παρεμβολών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kultuur storing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

culturjamming
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kultur jamming
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of culture jamming

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CULTURE JAMMING»

The term «culture jamming» is normally little used and occupies the 114.503 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CULTURE JAMMING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about culture jamming

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CULTURE JAMMING»

Discover the use of culture jamming in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to culture jamming and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Culture Jamming: Pop Culture
It is increasingly in the media, but what exactly is culture jamming and how does it work? Culture jamming is a form of protest in which advertisements and other media messages are re-arranged or parodied in humorous or disturbing ways.
iMinds, 2009
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Culture Jamming: Ideological Struggle and the Possibilities ...
Culture jamming, as defined here, is a practice whereby texts critical of the status quo are created through the appropriation and/or mimicry of the aesthetics and/or language that are a part of popular, or at least widely experienced, ...
Afsheen Joseph Nomai, 2008
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Alternative and Activist New Media
The book traces the historical roots of these projects in alternative media, social movements, and activist art, including analyses of key case studies and links to relevant electronic resources.
Leah Lievrouw, 2013
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Politics, Products, and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism
Culture Jamming as Political Participation in Contemporary Political Consumerism Culture jamming differs considerably from conventional modes of political participation, which focus on change through the political system, for example, in the ...
Michele Micheletti, Dietlind Stolle, Andreas Follesdal, 2011
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OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture
OurSpace makes the case for a provocative new approach by co-opting the logic of capitalism itself. Christine Harold is assistant professor of speech communication at the University of Georgia.
Christine Harold, 2007
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Sign Wars: The Culture Jammers Strike Back
Culture jamming itself is a term popularised in a 1992 pamphlet called Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs by cyber critic and author Mark Dery. This thin and tall mini- book outlined many of the tactics and ...
David Cox, 2010
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Culture Jamming, Including: Troll (Internet), No LOGO, ...
This particular book is a collaboration focused on Culture jamming.More info: Culture jamming is a tactic used by many consumer social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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Webster's Guide to Anarchism: Culture Jamming
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Emily Gooding, 2011
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The Global Resistance Reader
Besides a fair bit of animosity between these camps, the only ideology bridging the spectrum of culture jamming is the belief that free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point that no one can hear you. "I think ...
Louise Amoore, 2005
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Articles on Culture Jamming Techniques, Including: ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CULTURE JAMMING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term culture jamming is used in the context of the following news items.
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BDS-SA packs a punch with Pharell Woolies spoof
The video, which has been described as “culture jamming“, went viral with the campaign attracting the attention of well-known South Africans. «The Daily Vox, Jun 15»
2
A Chapman Brother on Making Us Laugh at Human Atrocity
Looking back, this is a form philosophical culture jamming which might characterize the work of all the Young British Artists (YBAs). You'll find it ... «Hyperallergic, Jun 15»
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VIDEO: In New Film, Legendary Pranksters "The Yes Men" Take on …
While kayaktivists took to the water in Seattle to protest Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic, the culture jamming group The Yes Men staged a ... «AlterNet, Jun 15»
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Birdman v Uttama Villain: Portrait of the Artiste As an Older, Wiser Man
A cross-cultural analysis reveals that both Birdman and Uttama Villain promote a return to humanism through culture jamming, reject the fascist ... «PopMatters, Jun 15»
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WATCH: Yes Men Protest Shell Oil Drilling by Sharing Snow Cones …
Democracy Now! was there last week in when culture jamming activist group The Yes Men took to the streets of New York City to protest Shell's ... «Democracy Now!, Jun 15»
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The Yes Men's Latest Stunt: Helping Activists Around the County …
Andy Bichlebaum and Mike Bonanno—the pseudonyms of the two political activists behind the culture jamming group The Yes Men—have ... «In These Times, Jun 15»
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Yes Men Protest Shell Oil Drilling by Distributing Snow Cones from …
Here in New York, the culture jamming activist group The Yes Men protested Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic by handing out ancient ... «Democracy Now!, Jun 15»
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Dempsey: US May Build More Bases in Iraq
Here in New York, the culture jamming activist group The Yes Men protested Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic by handing out ancient ... «Democracy Now!, Jun 15»
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The Yes Men Are Revolting in a doc about how hard it is to make a …
For a long time, there's relatively little culture jamming (as their brand of activism is known) in The Yes Men Are Revolting, which gets bogged ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»
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Pills, Protest, and Piracy
... to achieve semantic dissonance: by culture jamming, Fishman tampers with the highly stylized corporate identities integrated into pill design. «Brooklyn Rail, Jun 15»

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