This category is for two kinds of sites. The first are sites that utilize media to promote grassroots social activism. The second are the ones that protest specific media sources.
There is a fine line between having a site that criticizes a specific source and one that promotes activism in opposition to it. However, if your site is more of a critical examination of a media source (or sources) than an activist one, it should be submitted to
Media: Analysis and Opinion.
In addition, if your site is more oriented towards educating the public in how to consume the media in general, it should be submitted to
Media Literacy.
Also, if your site promotes the "public interest" generally, and is not tied to any specific issue, it may belong here. It also should also be submitted to
Media: Public Interest.
Submission Tips:
- When writing your site''s title please ensure it is the same as your organization.
- When writing your site''s description, please tell what your site offers in a clear and concise statement without hype or promotional language.
Thank-you for your cooperation.
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.
Sites relating to organizing and activism with a focus on the Pacifica Radio Network it's stations and affiliates.