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Winner of the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity
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 other’s values. He teaches media studies at NYU and the New School University, serves as technology columnist for The Daily Beast, and lectures around the world.
Rushkoff's new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, "Digital Nation", is just out from OR Books. His last book, an analysis of the corporate spectacle called Life Inc., was also made into a short, award-winning film . His ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out and Coercion, winner of the Media Ecology Association’s Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book.
In addition, Rushkoff has written and hosted three award-winning Frontline documentaries – "The Merchants of Cool" looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, "The Persuaders", about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and most recently, "Digital Nation", about life on the virtual frontier.
Rushkoff writes a column for the music and culture magazine, Arthur, and his commentaries have aired on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR’s All Things Considered, and have appeared in publications from The New York Times toTime magazine. He regularly appears on news and talk shows, and serves on numerous advisory boards, also lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world.
On BetterListen!
Program Or Be Programmed: 10 Commands for a Digital Age
Rushkoff Live: A Talk Based on "Life Inc."
Rushkoff Live: A Talk Based on "Program or Be Programmed"
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In Print
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Douglas Rushkoff

Program or Be Programmed Audiobook by Doug Rushkoff - Unabridged
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Read by the author: "Until you hear Rushkoff reading Rushkoff, you haven't heard Rushkoff." The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: it’s here; it’s everywhere. The real question is, do we direc...

Rushkoff Live Collection: Talks Based on His Books
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A collection of live talks from Douglas Rushkoff based on his books Present Shock (recorded April, 11 2013 Greenlight Bookstore, NYC), Program or Be Programmed (recorded Nov 3, 2010, Evan Korth Computers & Society Speaker Series NYU), and Life Inc (recorded July, 2010, Zurich, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute). Author Bio and ...

Rushkoff Live: A Talk Based on "Life Inc."
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Check out this fascinating excerpt from a talk by Douglas Rushkoff based on his book Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take it Back -- a book that challenges us to think completely differently about how we see the economics, the world of business, and money itself. "As I see it, nothing is free. Nothing is free. Ever...

Rushkoff Live: A Talk Based on "Present Shock"
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Check out this fascinating excerpt from a talk by Douglas Rushkoff based on his book Continue reading the excerpt Author Bio and Links Running Time: 67 minutes ISBN: Digital Download 978-1-61544-520-2

Rushkoff Live: A Talk Based on "Program Or Be Programmed"
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Douglas Rushkoff is widely considered to be one of most cutting-edge thinkers of our time. In his book, Program or Be Programmed, Rushkoff asks the question: Do we direct technology or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? BetterListen! is delighted to make a available a talk Rushkoff gave on...