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Culture jamming, or "media hacking", is the deliberate subversion of media messages (usually advertising). This category is particularly for groups or organizations whose express purpose is to disrupt the institutions of modern, usually Western culture: the corporation, the media, science, religion. In short, their targets are "the Establishment" and most authority. The tactics used are varied, but generally fall in the category of subversive/humorous media stunts. That can range from straight-forward parodies to deliberate hoaxes. At the extremes includes anarchistic acts of "poetic terrorism," like billboard defacement, or "art sabotage", willful acts of destruction in a performance art style.
Please submit links to subversive and artistic hoaxes. Deliberate hoaxes for personal gain belong in Society/Issues/Fraud/. Scientific hoaxes belong in Science/Science in Society/Skeptical Inquiry/Hoaxes. Self-propagating hoaxes or fictions (or stranger-than-fictions) belong in Society/Urban Legends.
Akay is a young Stockholm artist whose guerilla art contains messages about reclaiming the streets and the idea that public space belongs to public expression.

Obey-Giant is artist and skateboarder Shepard Fairey's experiment in phenomenology. It began in 1990 with the "ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE: 7'4", 520 LB" stickers. Over one million of the stickers have since been distributed worldwide. After enjoined from using the copy written name "Andre the Giant" in 1996, Fairey has been producing mock-propaganda Obey-Giant posters and stickers.

Altering outdoor advertising to subvert its message. Called "billboard liberation" or "billboard improvement" by its proponents. Called "vandalism" by its opponents.

etoy is a group of artists working on the internet since 1994. The group's first and most publicized action was the "digital hijack" in 1996, in which they tricked a number of major search engines to list fake pages first for many popular search terms. About 1.5 million searchers were diverted to etoy's own hijack site. The action won etoy the 1996 Golden Nica in the internet art category at Ars Electronica.

In the Fall of 1999, etoy was the focus of a domain name dispute with online retailer eToys, Inc., who sued the artists for trademark infringement and dilution. After a preliminary injunction took etoy's site offline on November 28, 1999, support around the internet community for etoy resulted in a boycott campaign against eToys.

Deliberate hoaxes that are intended to defraud people of preconceptions, not money or power.
Please submit links to subversive and artistic hoaxes. Deliberate hoaxes for personal gain belong in Society/Issues/Fraud/. Scientific hoaxes belong in Science/Science in Society/Skeptical Inquiry/Hoaxes. Self-propagating hoaxes or fictions (or stranger-than-fictions) belong in Society/Urban Legends.
Poster campaign featuring posters with a circle-slashed-dot and domain names like "ButIdon'tNeedMyToothpasteDelivered.com", "ShredsOfSomeonesSoulForAuction.com", "AnythingIFoundInMyGarageForSale.com.", and "AllThePornYouCanEat.com".
Nike ID allows users to order personalized Nike sneakers with messages of their choosing stitched on them. They have been reluctant to process orders with subversive words like "sweatshop".
Donna McLean of Bristol, Great Britain, reportedly became the first person to try and patent her own genes.
Greenbrier High School of Evans, Georgia, USA, held "Coke in Education Day" to win a $500 local contest by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Augusta, and a national contest with a $10,000 prize. Coca-Cola was incorporated in various classroom activities. A Coke marketing executive addressed economics students, chemistry students analyzed the sugar content of Coke, and a Coca-Cola cake recipe was prepared in home economics.

During a photo shoot lining students up to spell out the word "Coke", Mike Cameron wore a T-shirt with the logo of Coca-Cola competitor Pepsi, and was suspended for his "disruptive" behavior.

In response to negative media attention, the suspension was erased from Mike Cameron's record.

Originally organized pub crawls involving mobs of people dressed up in Santa Claus costumes. Some of the events are now held for charity, collecting donations. Also known as Santarchy, Santa Rampage, the Red Menace, and Santapalooza.

Sites that look like other websites at first (and second) glance, but with subversive content.

This category is for explicitly culture-jamming spoof websites, though all spoof sites are culture-jamming to some degree. Most spoof websites should go under Recreation/Humor/Parodies. Only those which deliberately attempt to trick the viewer into believing that the site is real should be included here.

Australian composers Nigel Helyer, aka Dr Sonique, and Jon Drummond have copyrighted the melodies produced by 100,000,000,000 telephone tone sequences to lampoon copyright laws.
In the site's own words: "The election industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to influence the presidential election, system is an inefficient waste of money for the candidates and their supporters. Voteauction.com is committed to improving this system by bringing the campaign contributors' money directly to the voters."
®TMark (the TM should be superscript), pronounced "art mark," supports the sabotage of corporate products by channeling funds and resources to the creative saboteurs. Past successes include the Barbie Liberation Organization, Phone in Sick Day, and Deconstructing Beck. The EFF of pranskterism.
Groups that attempt to counter the political and social implications of Barbie belong here. Groups that use Barbies to state a political message belong here.