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Re framing the scene: appropriating familiarity for cultural change - Students of Sustainability 20150712 final
1. Re-framing the scene:
appropriating familiarity for
cultural change
presentation by
Gillian King
Sustainable Jill
to
Students of Sustainability
Flinders University
12 July 2015
2. 1. Introduction
2. Culture & Communication
3. Advertising & Marketing
4. Parody & Culture Jamming for Change
5. Let’s Have A Go!
ProgramProgram
4. About me
• Sustainability facilitator bringing together
people, information & ideas
• 20 years Aust Gov’t policy, management
– environment (particularly climate change), industry
& ageing
• Long-term interest in climate change & urban
planning
– scientist, policy-maker, community member,
activist
– interested in systemic change, game-changers,
communication
⇒ cultural change!
14. 4 Parody & Culture
Jamming for Change
4 Parody & Culture
Jamming for Change
15. ‘Selling’ change – why?‘Selling’ change – why?
• ‘Reframing is social change.’
(George Lakoff. 2004. Don’t Think of an Elephant, Scribe Publications: Melbourne)
16. • Draws attention to and at the same time
subverts
• Tactics include:
– Fake advertisements (‘subvertisements’)
– Hoax news stories
– Pastiches of company logos and labels
– Computer hacking
– Parody
Culture jammingCulture jamming
17. Simply #Divest, Global Divestment Day - Adelaide, 13 Feb 2015
http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=zwhvoBfOmM4&start=199&end=240&cid=5846396; http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5846396
Source: Sutton, T-J, 2015. Simply #Divest - Global Divestment Day - Adelaide, 13 Feb 2015,
https://youtu.be/zwhvoBfOmM4
18. • Fair use
• Level playing field
Culture jamming – legal issuesCulture jamming – legal issues
21. Adbusters, ‘What was that bump?’, EnvironMENTAL,
https://www.adbusters.org/spoofads/environmental
22. Mannseichner, B. 2011. ‘Organized Crime’. EnvironMENTAL, Adbusters, 11 February 2011,
https://www.adbusters.org/content/organized-crime
23. Adbusters, 2011. ‘Corporate America Flag’, 11 February 2011,
https://www.adbusters.org/content/corporate-america-flag
24. Abrupt, 2003. ‘Catastrophic climate change?’, 9 February 2003,
http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/catastrophic-climate-change-2/
25. Adbusters, 2011. ‘Automotive Big Three. You wouldn't buy our shitty cars, so we'll
be taking your bailout money anyways’, EnvironMENTAL, 28 February 2011,
https://www.adbusters.org/content/automotive-big-three
40. Adbusters, 2011. ‘Green is the New Black. Greenwashing is the new black’.
EnvironMENTAL, 28 February 2011, https://www.adbusters.org/content/green-new-black
41. The Daily Blog Reposts, 2014. ‘Which pollution do you want?’ 31 March 2014,
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/03/31/which-pollution-do-you-want/#!prettyPhoto
49. Summary (1)Summary (1)
• Culture is about communication.
• Language, stories and images that resonate
with us emotionally are the key.
• Psychology and marketing can provide
invaluable help with transforming culture.
• A bold, vivid and clear alternative that
engages us emotionally is the key to change.
50. • Marketing
→ change attitudes & behaviour
⇒ useful
• Appropriating the familiar is influential.
• Parody & culture jamming can be
creative, legal & very engaging
Summary (2)Summary (2)
51. A Simple Love Poem #showthelove, February 2015
http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=psxr2m3puzg&start=0&end=110&cid=5846606 ; http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5846606
Source: The Climate Coalition. 2015. A Simple Love Poem #showthelove, 10 February 2015,
https://youtu.be/psxr2m3puzg
52. "Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world; indeed, it's the
only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
Editor's Notes
Hello everyone. It’s a delight to be here in this session.
How many people were at my session this morning on using marketing for cultural change?
[This session builds on it, so there is a little bit at the beginning to bring those who weren’t there up to speed on a few key points relevant to this session, and those who were there will have a little revision.]
I want to open your eyes and minds to parody and culture jamming
and some of the techniques and issues involved
so at the end of the session you can spend some time working on your own contributions.
Before I begin, I wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we are meeting, the Kaurna people.
I wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.
I would also like to acknowledge and welcome other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may be attending this session.
We might find it useful to draw upon their wisdom during the course of our discussions today and tomorrow.
I have a long-term interest in climate change.
I am particularly interested in systemic change, game-changers, communication- the cultural changes necessary for us to survive in the face of climate change.
In this talk I’m going to focus on the long tradition of activists and others appropriating what is familiar to us,
particularly through parody and culture jamming,
and how that can lead to cultural changes.
Because cultural change is what is needed if we are going to survive with climate change.
Climate change is the greatest problem that has ever faced humanity.
It is not just another discreet economic or political or environmental problem.
It is a systemic crisis of this planet’s ability to support life as we know it,
because we have exceeded some of the biophysical limits of this Earth to support us.
And we are seeing this in climate change.
In short, our Earth is exhausted
because most of the people involved making decisions that affect our Earth and most of its inhabitants
do not seem to understand the urgency and magnitude of the changes needed for life on Earth to survive.
One place where we see this very clearly is in the negotiations under the UNFCCC.
It can be argued that the way the negotiations have been working has limited cooperative action as well as effective action by individual countries, companies and other organisations.
Why?
Because, in a delightful analogy I heard very recently,
the negotiators, and the interests that have had most sway with governments,
have been focussing on the intricacies of the waves breaking on the sea-shore
rather than taking notice of the rising tide.
They have missed the big picture, the overarching goal that should be guiding all our decisions: that is, survival.
And that requires a major change in the dominant culture that has lead to this crisis.
This transformation will need to reassert the biophysical realities within which we live and promote a culture which is sensitive to and respects nature and its limits.
So, how is that going to happen?
That’s where culture and communication come in.
No matter how you define it, culture is about communication.
Culture is our way of life
and it’s passed from person to person,
from one generation to another
by communication.
It’s about what we communicate
and how we communicate it.
And that communication may be verbal or non-verbal.
The emotions we attach to communication help give it meaning.
Advertisers and activists alike use this knowledge to influence our behaviour, thinking and culture.
Now I’d like to look at how advertising and marketing effect change.
There is quite a body of work on how to go about this…
It mainly comes out of psychology,
advertising and marketing
With some coming out of project management and campaigning, including grass roots campaigning.
It comes fr om professionals and from volunteers.
A lot of research and experience is published –
and there’s a lot of experience that’s shared via a variety of other avenues.
Advertisers and marketers are in the change industry –
effecting change is their bread and butter.
They use psychology to influence behaviour and thinking.
Their work is evidence-based.
They are creative.
And they can be very effective.
And now the long tradition of people who parody other people’s work, including activists, are making use of that knowledge.
Let’s have a brief look at what advertising, psychology and systems thinking bring to the influencing table and how it’s relevant to parody and culture jamming.
You may be familiar with the idea that our brains have a filter,
so we can concentrate on the things that matter most to us.
But that seems to relate only to the conscious brain,
that part that we use for active thinking.
The idea that everything our senses pick up makes an impression on our brains
was demonstrated in 2001.
Zajonc showed that we like something simply because it is more familiar to us – whether or not we are aware of it.
He called it the ‘mere exposure effect’.
Zajonc, R. B. 2001. Mere exposure: A gateway to the subliminal. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10(6): 224-8
Heath showed that very time we see an ad it makes an impression on the brain.
Heath, R. F. 2001. The Hidden Power of Advertising. Admap Monograph no. 7, Helney-on-Thames: Warc
From that, we can deduce that every time we see a picture, hear a story or read words, it makes an impression on our brains.
For example, how many of these outlines can you recognise and name?
How many of you recognise the brands on the left?
Can you name them?
How many of you recognise the leaves on the right?
Can you name them? [Even I, as a botanist, have trouble.]
Even though the leaves on the right are from the northern hemisphere plants, they grow in Australia.
Yet, these dawe are bombarded with the images on the left and so they are more familiar to us.
They are carefully placed where we will see them a lot – and a lot more than trees and leaves.
In fact, the more we are exposed to something, generally the more we will like it,
even if we do not develop any specific beliefs about it.
That’s the mere exposure effect.
Perner, L. Attitudes. http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/cb_Attitudes.html, viewed 17 February 2015.
I think that is critical to what is driving our culture and how cultural transformation might be effected.
Advertisers, marketers, other influencers – including activists - now apply that knowledge,
the mere exposure effect,
to catalyse social changes.
In particular, advertisers and activists appropriate what is familiar to us in order to influence us.
Parody and culture jamming is one way this happens.
And it’s an essential part of activists’ armoury.
They look at the images, stories and words we use.
Then they look at how they might be used or replaced to fit the message with which they want to influence their audience.
And that’s where culture jamming comes in.
Parody and culture jamming is an important component of catalysing social change
because it is all about framing.
And reframing is, I think, the key element in changing culture.
As George Lakoff says, reframing is social change.
Lakoff, G, 2004. Don’t Think of an Elephant: Know your values and frame the debate. Introduction by Julia Baird. Scribe Publications: Melbourne. 121pp
It opens people’s eyes to alternatives to their current ways of living and thinking.
Culture jamming can be defined as activities that draw attention to, and at the same time subvert, the messages and images of others, and particularly things with which we are familiar.
Tick Yes says:
‘culture jamming is the act of subverting mainstream media, political or advertising agendas to promote a (usually) anti-consumerism message. More than simple parody, it involves taking the elements of a popular advertisement or media statement and using them to highlight its hypocrisy, or to twist the message in order to make a social comment.’
Tick Yes, 2012. ‘A brief history of culture-jamming’, The Message by Tick Yes, 8 February 2012, http://blog.tickyes.com/a-brief-history-of-culture-jamming/
Traditionally it is a form of political and social activism that uses means such as fake advertisements (or subvertisements), hoax news stories, pastiches of company logos and product labels, computer hacking, and parody to subvert the power of the media, governments and large corporations, particularly in how they use that power to control and distort the information that they give to the public.
jazz it up, 2010. ‘Culture jamming’, Week 5. Tutespark.’, All Things Jazzy, 30 August 2010, http://allthingsjazzy.blogspot.com.au/2010_08_01_archive.html
More recently, commercial interests are using these tactics.
We see this in the mass-production and commoditisation of counter-cultural statements and images and in guerrilla marketing.
Tick Yes, 2012. ‘A brief history of culture-jamming’, The Message by Tick Yes, 8 February 2012, http://blog.tickyes.com/a-brief-history-of-culture-jamming/
This is an example of classic parody – but used as part of a cultural transformation campaign.
Sutton, T-J, 2015. Simply #Divest - Global Divestment Day - Adelaide, 13 Feb 2015, https://youtu.be/zwhvoBfOmM4
Digitalbazaar wrote an excellent summary of legal issues facing culture jammers, and Adbusters in particular.
The main legal issues seem to be fair use and the ‘legal right to buy [advertising] under the same rules and conditions advertising agencies do’.
Canada-based Adbusters was involved in some landmark legal cases in Canada dealing with issues we have seen in Australia very recently.
Adbusters argued that it was ‘absurd a public interest group can’t buy space on public airwaves.’
digitalbazaar, 2009. Marketing and Advertising on the Net. ‘Culture jammers: the case for free speech’, 25 February 2009, https://digitalbazaar.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/culture-jammers-the-case-of-free-speech/
The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters.
They used what they call ‘Identity Correction’, ’impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them, and otherwise giving journalists excuses to cover important issues.’
http://theyesmen.org
They have been operating more recently as Yes Lab, and focussing more on strategy and training to help ‘progressive organizations and activists carry out media-getting creative actions around well-considered goals.’
http://www.yeslab.org
although I see that they have been up to their old tricks again this year.
Greenpeace is also excellent at culture jamming.
It used Lego to call on Lego to end its co-promotion with Shell because of Shell’s leadership in drilling for oil in the Arctic –
something that is only possible because of global warming and that will make it worse.
As a result of the campaign, Lego ended its partnership with Shell.
Greenpeace used this parody graphic to celebrate.
http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2014/oct/10/greenpeace-lego-shell-climate-change-arctic-oil
This spoof ad by Adbusters sums up what is wrong with our current dominant culture, and most major corporations in particular.
Our current culture does not show an understanding of and respect for the processes of life upon which we are entirely dependent.
Adbusters says it ‘is a not-for-profit, reader-supported … magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.’
https://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters
It describes its website as a ‘Culturejammer’s Headquarters’.
This is one of Adbusters’ graphics that sums up much of its work.
What can you tell me about it?
[The theme running through major corporations is organised crime.]
And this graphic gives voice to what many think about America:
that it is run by corporations
This is a subvertisement from Adbusters.
It uses the type of ad that the motor vehicle industry uses to highlight how our culture –
and the motor vehicle industry –
denies our role in depleting the environment.
This is another Adbusters subvert using, this time in the context of the bailout of the big car manufacturers during the Global Financial Crisis.
The kick is in the detail:
the car manufacturers were struggling because people were buying imported cars because, amongst other things, they had better fuel consumption –
which is better for the environment than what the US manufacturers traditionally offered.
Adbusters’ big car theme continues, focussing on the damage that vehicles cause.
Note the brand name.
What does this graphic convey to you?
Why?
It’s just the latest in a long line of graphics that tell you a lot about the industry.
To explain more, I’d like to quote at length from ‘Britain’s oil hunters’ on The History Channel’s website (http://www.history.co.uk/shows/britains-oil-hunters/articles/evolution-of-bp):
Before it was a brand, BP was a product range.
In 1917 British cans of motor fuel that had previously been sold under the enigmatic label ‘Palm Tree Oil’ were marketed as ‘BP’, short for British Petroleum.
The company itself wouldn’t be called BP for another 40 years, but BP gasoline quickly captured motorists’ imaginations, both in Britain and across continental Europe.
The letters appeared in advertisements, on the pumps and on the sides of delivery trucks.
A Mr AR Saunders from the purchasing department won an employee competition in 1920 to design the first BP mark, a boxy ‘B’ and ‘P’ with wings on their edges, set into the outline of a shield.
For a while the colours inside the shield could be almost anything: red, blue, black, green, yellow, white.
But by the time executives sent a letter to subsidiaries in the 1930s asking them all to use a consistent house sign,
green and yellow were the norm.
Precisely how these distinctive colours came to stand for BP is something of a mystery.
At any rate, the French operation introduced the colour scheme in 1923, followed shortly thereafter by the Swiss.
In Britain the first BP petrol pumps and trucks were bright red, which drew the ire of some in the countryside who said they spoiled the views.
The repainted green pumps blended in better with the scenery.
[You could say that this was early greenwashing.]
The shield would serve the company for 80 years in all, with a few subtle changes along the way.
When BP merged with Amoco in 1998 the company’s name changed to BP Amoco, and the shield appeared side-by-side with Amoco’s equally familiar torch.
Then in 2000 BP, now a group of companies that included Amoco, ARCO and Castrol, unveiled a new global brand with a new mark,
a sunburst of green, yellow and white symbolizing dynamic energy in all its forms.
It was called the Helios after the sun god of ancient Greece.
In a press release announcing the change,
the group said it had decided to retain the BP name because of its recognition around the world
and because it stood for the new company’s aspirations: ‘better people, better products, big picture, beyond petroleum.’
What do you think about that?
Now for something a bit different.
How many of you have seen this picture?
What can you tell me about it?
(execution, uneven power, victim seems to have no choice, others watch but do not intervene)
The photo was taken in 1968 during the Viet Nam war.
It was titled "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon” and would become a very famous image in contemporary journalism
so much so that it is still well recognised today.
Can you think about other situations today where we may see similar uneven power where people seem to have no choice about what happens to them?
What about examples to do with sustainability?
(banks calling in loans to farmers and selling their land to buyers who then turn them into coal mines or CSG wells, people eating food contaminated with chemicals or that is produced in a way that destroys the land or wild populations from which it comes)
How might you use this picture to change people?
How might it be used to jam the BP sunburst logo?
Could it be done?
Should it be done? Why?
We’ll come back to that later.
Parodying of corporate symbols is related to the amount of damage they are perceived to be doing.
Despite a long history of having a strong learning culture and of being willing to confront environmental issues
(and even to play a leadership role in renewable energy),
BP came under fire after its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
This gallery shows some of the parodies of the current BP logo that Greenpeace and others made.
Most of them draw attention to the dangers of oil spills.
These anti-ads and culture jamming serve to disrupt the visual stream of advertising that we are subject to daily.
Here we see the Vietnamese execution added to the BP sunburst logo.
Notice that the gun has been changed to a petrol pump nozzle.
Why do you think that is?
This 2011 spoof by Adbusters alludes to damage BP causes beyond oil spills:
BP has us captured – we ‘have’ to use oil.
And to ensure that flow of oil, we go to war – which results in some of us being killed.
Further, the ongoing use of oil threatens our survival, because of climate change.
This sign comes out of Greenpeace’s "Don't buy Esso, Don't buy Exxon/Mobil" campaign that started in 2001 and ran for over 2 years.
(Exxon/Mobil trades under the name Esso in many parts of the world.)
Greenpeace developed this parody of Esso's logo with a double dollar sign: E$$O
Esso took Greenpeace to court for copyright infringement, claiming that Greenpeace’s ‘Stop Esso’ website would ‘confuse customers’ into thinking they were at a real Esso site.
Esso also claimed that the modified logo made them look like Nazis, on the basis that the two dollar signs together were similar to the stylized Nazi SS symbol.
Most interestingly, Esso claimed that Greenpeace’s parody of their logo would damage their "good reputation.”
To quote Greenpeace:
‘This is the company that has done more than any other corporation to undermine the science and policy debate on global warming. This is the company that donated massively to George Bush's election campaign, and was rewarded with the US withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol. This is the company that despoiled the pristine Alaskan coastline with an oil spill the effects of which are still with us today. This is the company responsible for 5 percent of all greenhouse gasses on the planet. This is the company which has been branded environmental criminal #1 and been targeted by activists all over the world in a massive "Don't Buy Esso" campaign. If Esso was really worried about its reputation, it might try doing something for our planet and our children's future instead of using its gargantuan legal resources to try and stamp out the wildfire of dissent.’
In 2004 a French court rejected Esso's claims of trademark infringement and ruled that Greenpeace’s parody of the Esso logo was within acceptable limits of freedom of expression.
Greenpeace International, 2004. ‘Greenpeace wins against oil giant’, 5 February 2004, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/greenpeace-wins-against-oil-gi/
Cartoonist Hugh MacLeod drew this Venn diagram to illustrate businesses’ post-advertising use of culture jamming
but I think it could apply to any organisation using culture jamming.
MacLeod, H. 2011. ‘Culture Jamming: America’s next big industry?’, Gaping Void blog, http:gapingvoid.com/cj/
Perhaps the longest tradition of parody comes in the form of taking an existing work of art and tweaking it.
New technology such as the internet and YouTube have mad this much more elaborate and influential.
generationzeronz’s channel, 2012. ‘Beyonce Single Ladies - Climate Change ETS spoof’, 29 October 2012,https://youtu.be/qyC92W_NOCk?list=FLqh7ogdnQw9_Z1yCf61D7Jg
Parody is not just used by activists seeking change.
It is also used by their opponents.
stuviewer, 2013. 24 September 2013, ‘Climate Change? - Dankeschön – parody’, https://youtu.be/lqCSkPyZYN0?list=FLqh7ogdnQw9_Z1yCf61D7Jg
Here we have a graphic illustration of how much planet Earth warmed in the 34 years between 1978 and 2012.
Sad, isn’t it?
And, yet, there are people and organisations out there who want it even warmer.
That’s shy we need to have spoof ads like this one from Adbuters – drawing attention to the greenwashing of the big oil companies.
This subvert sums up the approach of the fossil fuel industries and alludes to a famous book that I’ll come back to later.
Which of these spills would you prefer?
Original source of picture missing, so used secondary source (where I found the pic)
We know the Nationals are for regional Australia -
aren’t they?
We have had health warnings on cigarette packs for a long time
And we know how effective they are as part of a long-running broad campaign
What would be the impact of a few minor changes?
Culture jamming makes use of iconic and popular literature and film too.
The triplet of statements in this photoshopped billboard alludes to the triplet of oxymorons ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength’.
These are The Party’s slogan in Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, written in 1948 warning about the use of technology and politics in the future.
Tony looking down is also clearly Big Brother.
As well, there is the twist on the film title American Psycho and the standard film advertisment words of ‘now showing’.
And they are all mashed together for extra impact across generations.
This low-tech poster seen recently in London is just as effective and reflects the culture of a younger generation.
While it was made to protest against austerity measures, it could just as easily apply to climate change and other crises.
Let’s break into small groups and spend 5 minutes coming up with our own culture jams.
To recap,
Culture is about communication.
Language, stories and images that resonate with us emotionally are the key.
Psychology and marketing can provide invaluable help with transforming culture.
A bold, vivid and clear alternative that engages us emotionally is the key to change.
The science and art of marketing is about changing attitudes and behaviour.
As such, it offers a useful tool for effecting the social changes our societies need to survive climate change.
Advertisers and activists alike use evidence and creativity to influence our behaviour, thinking and culture.
In doing so, they often appropriate what is familiar to us.
Parody and culture jamming is just one method.
It can be creative, legal, and very engaging.
I leave you with a slightly different appropriation of the familiar for influencing action on climate change.
At the UNFCCC conference in Paris in December,
world leaders will make critical decisions about the future of life on Earth as we know it.
In the UK earlier this year, The Climate Coalition released this beautiful video for its #showthelove campaign for leaders to take strong climate action.
I think that Shakespeare would be proud to have his Sonnet number 18 used to encourage people to send the most important Valentine ever and #showthelove for planet Earth.
The Climate Coalition. 2015. A Simple Love Poem #showthelove, 10 February 2015, https://youtu.be/psxr2m3puzg