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TV Turn-Off Week

Adbusters, probably the most well-known culture jamming organisation, don’t just jam – they boycott!

Keeping in line with their anti-corporate sentiment and intention to reclaim public spaces, they have been running a campaign called ‘TV Turn-Off Week’ for the past 15 years. 

On their website, they state that it is “more than just getting people off their couches” it is “all about saying no to being inundated with unwelcome commercial messages. Saying no to unfettered media concentration. And challenging the heavily distorted reflection of the world that we see every day on the screen.”

Part of this campaign is the TV-b-Gone universal remote control, which allows people to turn television sets off whenever they want – giving the public the power to turn off televisions in airports, pubs, laundromats, restaurants…anywhere!

Leah Craven

Want to know more about TV Turn-Off Week?

• Adbusters

http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/#

• TV Turnoff Network

http://www.tvturnoff.org/

• White Dot

http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_front.asp

• Kill your TV

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/

• TV-b-gone

http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php

• Media Education Foundation

www.meidaed.org

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