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Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia, was canceled by bantam in 1992 because they thought the internet would be over by the time the book came out in 1993. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. Digital nation is a new, open source pbs project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world a digital world. Teaming with canadian independent comic artist steph dumais, rushkoff has delivered americas answer to japans anime. They include cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. Thanks to technologies like the computer, the modem. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in. Douglas mark rushkoff born february 18, 1961 is an american media theorist, writer. By the time a story hits the newstands, most insiders consider it old news and are already hard at work on the next flurry of culturebending inventions and. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, ecstasy club, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, and life inc. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels ecstasy club and exit strategy and graphic novel, club zerog. Douglas rushkoff is the winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. He has written and hosted three awardwinning pbs frontline documentaries. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, and life inc.
Cyberia, his first book on cyberculture, was inspired by the san francisco rave scene of the early 1990s. View douglas rushkoffs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional. Program or be programmed ten commands for a digital age. Life inc by douglas rushkoff penguin books australia. He lives in new york, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world. Cyberia is about a very special moment in our recent history a moment. When an entire subculture like a kid at a rave trying virtual reality for the first time saw the wild potentials of marrying the latest computer technologies with the most intimately held dreams and the most ancient spiritual truths. When everything happens now as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including program or be programmed, media virus, life inc and the novel ecstasy club. This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others especially. He has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, life inc. The book discusses many different ideas revolving around technology, drugs and subcultures. In 100 aphoristic statements, his manifesto exposes how forces for human.
Douglas rushkoff is the author of seven books on new media and popular culture, including cyberia. How the world became a corporation and how to take. He has also written and presented two documentaries, the merchants of cool and the persuaders. He teaches media studies at new york university, serves as technology columnist for the daily beast. Program or be programmed by douglas rushkoff nook book. Life in the trenches of hyperspace and media virus hidden agendas in popular culture. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, american media theorist douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, and life inc. Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. We are waking up to the fact that weve been slaves to an exponential growth curve for the past 40 years, at least, and really much much longer. How growth became the enemy of prosperity, present shock, program or be programmed, media virus, and the novel ecstasy club. Douglas mark rushkoff born february 18, 1961 is an american media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. Douglas rushkoff born 18 february 1961 is an american media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, clear biographer and documentarian. Douglas rushkoff biography merchants of cool frontline pbs.
Rushkoff takes a tom wolfe electric koolaid acid test style or roman a clef, as he actively becomes a part of the people and culture that he is writing about. Douglas rushkoff is a writer, documentarian, and lecturer whose work focuses on human autonomy in a digital age. Populist chronicler of cyberculture rushkoff cyberia, 1994, etc. Ten commands for a digital age, he shows us how we can take command of new technologies and gain access to the. May 11, 2009 douglas rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion, nothing sacred, get back in the box, and the novel ecstasy club. Life in the trenches of hyperspace rushkoff, douglas on. The initially planned publication was scrapped, however. He is professor of media theory and digital economics at cunyqueens. His other books include cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. Winner of the media ecology associations first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, dr.
When he told his publicist there about listing the book on amazon, she replied that sounds great. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover douglas. Douglas rushkoff managed to snap a picture at the very crest of that wave, capturing the philosophies, personalities and chemistries that made it a moment of such boundless optimism. Mar 31, 2011 douglas rushkoff has written ten books on new media and popular culture including cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. Named one of the worlds ten most influential intellectuals by mit, douglas rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. As far as the ultrawealthy are concerned, the virus to be afraid of is less a medical challenge than a memetic one. Douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each others values. The digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence, and the tension from the very first between corporate hightech and the appropriation of. Preface to the 1994 paperback edition a lot has happened in the year or so since i wrote this book. Douglas rushkoff is the author of seven books on new media and popular culture, including cyberia, media virus, playing the future, and the novel ecstasy. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, american media theorist douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in. Douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share.
Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia. Innovation from the inside out and coercion, winner of the marshall mcluhan award for best media book. Douglas rushkoff, author of eight books on media and culture, as well as the novels ecstasy club and exit strategy, marks his graphic novel debut with club zerog. View douglas rushkoffs profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Douglas rushkoff, one of the most cutting edge thinkers of our time, is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each others values.
And cyberguru douglas rushkoff s new book must be a modern classic of the. In the past, rushkoff has been a cheerleader for the liberating potentialities of the internet and other interactive technology. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media or. He is the author of several books including present shock. With illustrations by leland purvis thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have todayand douglas rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking.
Douglas rushkoff born 18 february 1961 is an american media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. Cyberia, his first book on cyberculture, was inspired by the san francisco rave scene of the. Douglas rushkoff audio books, best sellers, author bio. Rushkoff also presents guidelines for optimal living in the digital age. He made the pbs frontline documentaries merchants of cool, the persuaders, and the upcoming digital nation. Rushkoffs first book about digital culture, cyberia, was canceled by bantam in 1992. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. But the major contribution of the book is the discussion of the role and effects of programmingcoding and, consequently, the neednow at least partially met by a plethora of workshops, apps, and programsto learn how to program. He is best accepted for his affiliation with the aboriginal cyberpunk culture, and his advancement of accessible antecedent solutions to amusing problems. Douglas rushkoff audio books, best sellers, author bio audible. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels ecstasy club and exit strategy and graphic novels club zerog, testament. Cyberia is about a very special moment in our recent history a moment when anything seemed possible. Now, twenty years later, that optimism may have gathered a somewhat sad patina to it. Between 1996 and 2001 he wrote a column on interactive culture for the new york times and the guardian.
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