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Fiske: Popular Culture is made by the people, NOT produced by the cultural industries. Cultural products become popular when they carry alternative or resistant readings. OBEY. “OBEY is about variety and experience, thinking about your surroundings and questioning the
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Fiske: Popular Culture is made by the people, NOT produced by the cultural industries.
Cultural products become popular when they carry alternative or resistant readings.
“OBEY is about variety and experience, thinking about your surroundings and questioning the purpose. Stay tuned for the next chapter, as the canvas will undoubtedly continue to change and evolve. The medium is the message.”
Corporations advertise, Culture Jammers subvertise. • “culture jamming is a form of dissent that produces “counter-messages” that hack into corpoation'sown method of communication to send a message at odds with the one intended.” - Naomi Klein (2000)
Fiske (1989) refers to “excorporation” as the process by which groups (often marginalized), make their own culture out of the resources and commodities provided by the dominant system. • Culture jamming, like advertising, addresses us as consumers. It often seeks to influence our behaviour as consumers and prod us to consume more ethically.
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