The Johns Hopkins University Digital Media Center presents 'Digital Culture Jamming', a talk on creative digital media by Baltimore-based art-activist group FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture. Learn how FORCE uses digital pranks, internet memes and public installations to fight sexual violence and promote a culture of consent.

FORCE has leveraged parody websites such as “PINK Loves CONSENT” and “Playboy’s Top Ten Party Commandments” to generate a nationwide dialogue about combating sexual violence. This workshop is designed to attract an array of socially-engaged community members and will focus on digital cultural jamming strategies, with FORCE projects serving as examples. Culture jamming borrows advertising techniques to expose faulty assumptions (or unconscious thought messages) to challenge the status quo. Examples include reconfiguring logos, juxtapositioning incongruent images, and creating memes. This one time, ninety minute event is open to both JHU students and the wider Baltimore public.

'Digital Culture Jamming' is co-hosted by the JHU Digital Media Center, the JHU Center for Health Education Wellness (CHEW), and the JHU Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU); with major support provided by the JHU Dean of Student Life.