Adbusters

Adbusters.org: A Journal of the Mental Environment "advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket" -George Orwell



Adbusters is a pretty radical magazine based in the US which put a name to and popularized [|culture-jamming] (a tactic in which an activist attempts to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions or corporate advertising)in the 1990s. Their website is crammed with great images for the media classroom and unpacks a lot of the unconscious assumptions behind images in the media through subversion.

By discouraging people from unconscious consumption, they've made quite a nice business for themselves in fact. They have a [|Media Empowerment Kit] for high school teachers (get your school to buy it: it costs USD155!). There are a few free lesson/activity ideas however, which I've put up below:

(this is my pick of the bunch - getting your class to design a spoof ad)

See the link above for the rest!