Intro to Media Studies BBS

Message from: Jake Harris (harrisj@MIT.EDU)
About: Lab 1

Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:19:45 -0500

  • Next message: Christopher H. Barron: "Media sites"
    http://www.adbusters.org/

    It is nice that one of the latter topics of this course will be
    culture jamming - the subversion of the commercial media that surround
    us. Although there are many culture jammers out there, nobody does it
    better than Ad Busters. Their magazine has lambasted corporate culture
    and hacked ad campaigns for years. Now it looks like they are
    expanding their focus to include the Internet, examining such new
    trends such as those ubiquitous banner advertisements found on almost
    any popular web page these days
    (http://www.adbusters.org/adbusters/sucker!.html) As a bonus, they've
    posted much of their back catalogue on the web page as well. Check it
    out. You may not like it (they get a bit too self-righteous for my
    tastes sometimes), but it'll make you think seriously about the
    insiduous presence of advertising in modern media.

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