Monday August 30 2010

Culture Jamming

As part of the culture jamming theme we have been discussing lately in lectures and tutorials, we were assigned to a group to create our own culture jam. It was hoped that our culture jam would get the attention of mainstream audiences and the media, but hopefully not get us (or maybe more importantly the university) in any major legal trouble.

Georgia and I have been working together this semester and have decided to team up and present a culture jam. After a much talked abotu discussion on culture jamming we decided to come up with an idea about Facebook. Since we are surrounded by students and friends who all have a Facebook account, we thought it would be a great idea to present something about Facebook. Georgia and I decided that we would research Facebook around the world and see what countries had blocked Facebook. After some heavy research we realised that Facebook has been blocked in China. This was due to China government wanting their commuity to focus on school, work and general life than be 'wasting time' on Facebook.

Georgia and I decided to create a Facebook group about 'Facebook being blocked in Australia' . We knew it could get the students worried and get their attention. We decided to make a blog about the group and a Facebook group and page about  blocking Facebook in the next 3 months.

We didn't want to go the extremes of getting Newspapers involved, Grffith university involved or any important news station. So that is why we decided on Facebook and making a group.

We ended up with a great success of many people joining the group and even had a few people create groups about 'Petition to keep Facebook'.

Overall it was fun creating a Facebook group.