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Culture Jamming
Terry Flew on anti-corporate activism on the Web: An important component of ...
new anti-corporate activism is culture-jamming. 'Culture-jamming' is a
term used to describe activities such as billboard alteration, hacking into
corporate Web sites, media stunts, and printed materials that mock corporate
logos (for example stickers and T-shirts), as well as Web-based and broadcast
'counter-media' that tells alternative stories (Cox 2001). Culture-jamming on
the Internet has been linked to cyber-squatting or the parodying of Web
sites of leading corporations, government agencies, and global organisations –
which utilises domain names that are comparable to those of these organisations.
Examples of such sites include <www.gatt.org> (parodying the WTO site at
<www.wto.org>), and <www.whitehouse.org> and <www.gwbush.org> which all parody and
critique the United States Government Web site <www.whitehouse.gov> (not to be confused
with
Terry Flew's useful internet sites:
AHA: ACTIVISM-HACKING-ARTIVISM : mailing list sull'attivismo artistico.
Anarchogeek : Archived Blog and anti-global commentary sight with extensive links.
Barbie Liberation Organisation
Independendent Media Centre : Home of a worldwide project to develop and link alternative news media sources, linked to protest movements.
Politics Online : Major resource site for those who use the internet for political purposes.
Vote.com : Another online politics site, developed by former Clinton adviser Dick Morris.
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