COMS 401 Lecture Notes - Pepper Spray, Culture Jamming, Occupy Movement
13 Mar 2014
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Grassroots conversions informal, often non-authorized flow of content issue of diversification looked at today. More people can be engaged by the culture jamming. Popular culture spread across the audience of the walking dead we are all mindless zombies. Monopoly guy begging for money no longer the 1% Occupy gotham bruce wayne holding a sign saying raise my taxes . Started at grassroots, got more visibility by getting into the mainstream. Cop got turned into a meme spraying god, spraying the beatles, etc. Technology (camera phones, youtube, photo editing) enabled the event to go viral. We are no longer passive active participation. Catching the culprits through the now-available technology is due to social media. Police showed the two subjects, they were posted on facebook, tweeted, shared, etc. in a matter of minutes. People scanned their photos on their phones. Brings forward the idea that even the lower quality media (old media) can still be very relevant.
