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Visit www.adbusters.org When on this website, click on the "Digital Detox Week" and "Media Carta" sections. Read/view the information on the website and then answer the follwoing questions in a word document:

1. What does the Digital Detox Week campaign involve? 2. What reasons are given for the campaign? What does the AdBusters organisation object to about the electronic mass media? 3. Examine some of the ads. How do they convey the campaign’s messages? 1. What is the Media Carta and what is its purpose? 2. What is your response to the fact that commercial TV stations in the USA refused to sell 15 seconds of advertising time to AdBusters? What does this suggest about the electronic media?
 * DIGITAL DETOX**
 * MEDIA CARTA**

Once you have completed these questions, consider the following two questions about the site as a whole and write your response in the discussion forum: Overall, how does the AdBusters site comment on the influence of media and technology on the global village? What would be the attitude of Adbuster to the Barlow Group/Airlink? What particular aspects of their methods might attract criticism?