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culture jamming 

Culture Jamming is the act of subverting mass media or communication to produce negative commentary on it’s self.
It is a form of social activism. It’s usually as a social movement against commercialism.
There are many types of culture jamming some are:
Guerrilla radio
Political vandalism
Hacktivism
Passive jamming
The corporate network was flooded by the culture jamming activists.
Did you hear them culture jamming the radio waves?
culture jamming by Dr Inkerman September 16, 2008
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culture jamming 

An act of vandalism carried out by uneducated but highly indoctrinated activists, who act out from egregious misunderstandings of capitalism taught to them by college professors who dreamt up their ideology with the aid of hallucinogenics and other mind altering substances in the late 1960s.

It is also an act of increativity, since the culture jammer is freed from having to create something original of their own, and instead barnacles their messaging onto an existing work of art, mass media, or communication.
"Dude, my professor told me that if I spray paint Che Guevara on a McDonald's billboard that I'll be culture jamming Mickey Dee's capitalist signal so they won't be able to disaffect the disproportionate disparities of the disenfranchised with their concentration camp chicken, man."
culture jamming by Schnorkenschneider February 14, 2014

culture-jamming 

The appropriation of a cultural element from one position to support a counter-position
The alt-right used culture-jamming to mimic civil rights movements during the 2016 election
culture-jamming by sandraxine September 26, 2017

Culture-jammin' 

the act of appropriating different cultural practices into an activity.
"Sara are you eating a muffin w/chopsticks?"
"Yah, i'm totally culture-jammin'!!'"

see also: Cooking stir-fry w/pasta, eating sushi at a festival.
Culture-jammin' by chipchip November 20, 2012
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