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Douglas rushkoff is a professor for media studies in the city university of new york with four videos in the cspan video library. Douglas rushkoff, author of program or be programmed, quit facebook in 20 because it does things on our behalf when were not even there. Named one of the worlds ten most influential intellectuals by mit, douglas rushkoff is an awardwinning author, broadcaster, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in the digital age. Program or be programmed ten commands for the digital age. The host of the popular team human podcast, rushkoff has written twenty books, including the bestsellers present shock and program or be programmed.
Douglas rushkoff s most popular book is program or be programmed. In his keynote speech this week at webvisions, he said that the difference. Mar 15, 2010 bestselling author and technology visionary douglas rushoff offers his insights and perspectives on humanitys role in the bight new future. 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. In this spirited, accessible poetics of new media, rushkoff picks up where marshall mcluhan left off, helping readers come to recognise programming as the new literacy of the digital age and as a template through which to see beyond social conventions and power structures that have vexed us for centuries.
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