Guerrilla Communication is a strategy that uses unconventional methods to convey a message or promote a cause. This approach often includes public spectacles, street theater, tactical frivolity (like pie-throwing), and various forms of activism[4] such as adbusting, graffiti, hacktivism[2], and reclaiming. It may also involve demonstrations like ‘Real Democracy NOW!’. The main actions in Guerrilla Communication are guided by two principles: distanciation and over-identification. Distanciation involves subtly altering regular representation, while over-identification positively presents taboo aspects. Examples include campaigns by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and artwork by Banksy. This method is discussed in various books and resources, including Warren Berger’s ‘Publicidade[3] Today’, Luther Blissett and Sonja Brünzels’ ‘Kommunication Guerrilla Handbuch’, and Jay Conrad Levinson’s ‘Guerrilla Marketing[1]’.
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Comunicação de guerrilha e communication guerrilla refer to an attempt to provoke subversive effects through interventions in the process of communication. It can be distinguished from other classes of political action because it is not based on the critique of the dominant discourses but in the interpretation of the signs in a different way. Its main goal is to make a critical non-questioning of the existing,[clarification needed] for reasons ranging from political activism para marketing. In terms of marketing, journalist Warren Berger explains unconventional guerrilla-style advertising as "something that lurks all around, hits us where we live, and invariably takes us by surprise". These premises apply to the entire spectrum of guerrilla communication because each tactic intends to disrupt cognitive schemas and thought processing.
The term was created in 1997 by Luther Blissett and Sonja Brünzels, with the publication of Kommunication Guerrilla Handbook (originally in German, translated in 2001 to Spanish and Italian). Both pertain to autonome a.f.r.i.k.a gruppe, which includes many people involved in communication guerrillas such as activists and non-artists living in different German peripheries. However, it was used before in 1984 by Jay Conrad Levinson, as a marketing strategy for small businesses.