It was really interesting to learn just how much a consumer in todays society controls the content in their lives. I believe that it is very much a positive outcome of personal computers, smart phones and new media in general.People that can control what they watch, listen to and learn from is quite freeing and and release from main-stream media control. People can watch Tv shows because they WANT to watch them not because that is what Media barons want them to watch. Online Tv shows and movies have no or very little advertisement, providing freedom of thought rather than being shown what to think about. Social media sites allow people to be involved in groups that they can connect with, having relationships with certain people that may not be available to them in their own life or community. However, i do believe that user generated content in News Media is not all together a positive outcome. While it is a easy way for PROFESSIONALS to write and contribute news stories etc into the public sphere, Everyday nobody's without talent take advantage of new media and put their own unreliable and fabricated news stories etc into the publics hands, clogging up the internet with useless information. If we could somehow filter out the Shit from the good, the internet and its user generated content would be much more reliable source.
(and researching would not be so time consuming)
TUTE SPARK***
Culture Jamming is the 'practice of disrupting, disturbing or subverting of mainstream media messages'. (also known as Media Hacking)
ONe of the first accounts of culture jamming happened between 1979-1983. The campaign was called 'Truisms' and was produced by multimedia ar
tist Jenny Holzer. The campaign utilised stock tickers, electronic billboards and stadium scoreboards to flash 'sardonic' messages such as "money creates taste" and "murder has its sexual side" at audiences.
A common form of culture jamming is called 'Seismi
c Solution', which is the use of established well-known advertising or images that are manipulated and create a new message. These images are usually found in public places and capture a second glance by viewers. Some examples are as follows.
Columbus, Ohio - expressing feelings on one of the biggest mailing companies in America.
Streets of East London- quite obviously the impact fast food is having on children
The Hilton Columbus, Ohio, exhibited the picture willingly. - expressing the families (esp. Paris Hiltons) lack of class. :)
A german artist by the name of Ronen placed life size photos of migrants and asylum seekers displaying their papers behind bars and grates of sewage canals. (political message)
http://www.woostercollective.com/culture_jamming/
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