On January 31, 2008, a video depicting hundreds of people standing perfectly still in New York's Grand Central Station was posted on YouTube. The video quickly became a phenomenon, and to date, nearly ...

Through the 1990s, a practice called "culture jamming" grew in popularity and sophistication. It aimed to disrupt consumer culture by transforming corporate advertising with subversive messages. So, ...

Writing and data science both involve telling stories. In this series, I attempt to convey a human portrait of the tech world by offering a personal account of some of the events that I attend.

Kids these days go to public schools sponsored by Coca-Cola, eat cafeteria lunches from McDonald’s, and (in Vernon Hills, anyway) play football on Rust-Oleum Field. Looks like the time is right for ...

This paper introduces the idea that businesses ought to be concerned about a form of consumer protest known as culture jamming, and then sets out the problem of how to research a phenomenon that is ...

Check out our accompanying slideshow for more images from this week’s installment of Echoes and Reverberations. Sly Stone was born there. Roy Orbison and Don Henley went to school there. Pat Boone and ...

Brevity of song length initially gave the Minutemen their name, but their influence has been anything but brief even though the life of the band and founder guitarist D. Boon was cut short some 20 ...

Over the past half a decade, culture jamming has emerged as a highly influential tool for creation of a brand's doppelganger image. Brand, a term coined in earlier centuries to differentiate ...