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Prowokacja kulturowa jako forma komunikacji
Cultural Provocation as a Form of Communication

Author(s): Bogusław Nierenberg, Anna Jakubiszyn
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: advertising; subvertising; adbusting; culture jammming

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this work is the analysis of advertising message in expression culture jamming. Adbusting, subverting, billboard banity, hoating are techniques, which create new advertising message without primary meaning. The inspiration of culture jamming are samizdat, monkeywrenching, guerrilla graffi ti, underground journalism, subcultural bricol guerrilla art, poetica terrorism, technique cut and paste and turntablism. Culture jamming oppose to customer life style and globalization. The aim of activists culture jamming is to unmask mechanism and message of advertising. In this situation message of advertising lose primary meaning. New semiology of advertising, which come into being communicative fuss. In this situation secondary meaning replaces to primary meaning. Important for progress of culture jamming is memetics, science, which investigate disseminate and comprehend signs in culture. Understanding of denotation and connotation signs and symbols in culture facilitate using the linguistic code.

  • Issue Year: 18/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 311-321
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish