Arguably, the media today represent the central means by which global power is mediated. The rise of global networks has consolidated the reach of corporate power such that it now rivals — and probably surpasses — that of government. People are finding innovative and alternative ways to communicate using the very means the corporate sector itself uses, to different ends. This is the world of the culture jammer, who turns the message back on the sender, the better to expose the unequal power relations at work in what Guy Debord called ‘The Society of the Spectacle’.
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