Adbuster's is a activist magazine which is at the forefront of supporting and networking culture jamming, it is widely recognisable for it's creative parodies and subvertisments. Founded by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz the non-profit, advertising free, magazine has been published since 1989. The magazine features juxtapositions of images and text to present thought provoking imagery and messages, however it has been criticised for looking too commercial and having style over substance.
The Adbusters media foundation describes the magazine as:
'Ultimately Adbusters is an ecological magazine, dedicated to examining the relationship between human beings and their physical and mental environment. We want a world in which the economy and ecology resonate in balance. We try to coax people from spectator to participant in this quest. We want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons.' (https://www.adbusters.org/about/adbusters)
Previews of the issues of the magazines are available online like the one below:
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