CULTURE JAMMING ~ Eyes Open: A Gateway to Alternative and Progressive Media Sources

Mark Miller, from the video Consuming Images, part of the Bill Moyers' series The Public Mind: Image and Reality in America:

"Simply knowing that you're an object of propaganda is not enough in itself to armor on against the appeals of propaganda...everybody's kind of aware that the propaganda is ongoing... that's what the concept of 'doublethink' means. With one part of your mind you can see that it's just a crock and you don't fall for it and you know that it is ridiculous, but with the other part of that same mind you adhere blindly to it...

"We as children of the enlightenment have been brought up to believe that once you see through a thing you are on the way to defeating it, but in fact that's not necessarily the case. It's necessary that people begin to take a close, careful, critical, historically informed look at these images, not just to glance at them and say "Oh yeah well, I know that's all just a bunch of nonsense", because that kind of knee-jerk skepticism is not really a defense."

Culture Jamming and Media Critique

Abrupt.org

Adbusters' Culture Jammer's Headquarters

The Billboard Liberation Front (BLF)

Black Planet - situationist texts

Cranky Media Guy - " Basically the world's only working class information and culture-jamming 'zine."

Get Your War On - political cartoons - very intense!

The Hypocrisy Entertainment Network

Make your own Bush Speech - homorous interactive flash site.

The Media Channel's Pop Culture page

MediaThink - The Northwest Media Literary Center, Portland, OR

NegativLand

PR Watch - offers investigative reporting on the public relations industry. Exposes activities of those who would control public opinion.

Reclaim the Media - "The Cascadia Media Alliance is a coalition of independent journalists, media activists and community organizers in the Pacific Northwest, promoting press freedom and community media access as prerequisites for a functioning democracy."

The Samizdat - Steve Mizrach's site

Situationist International

Stay Free Magazine - Like a low budget Adbusters, more focused on critiquing the PR industry.
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What I did in the War - Wearables and paraphenalia for progressives

The WTO - and no, it's not the official site

Other Cultural Investigations

Media In Transition at MIT <- A conference that covers many issues around media. Abstracts and some full papers available on the website. They had a second one in 2002, on Globalization and the Media.