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Douglas Rushkoff

Geboren: February 18, 1961 – New York City, New York, United States

Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, author, and documentarian whose work examines digital culture, technology, economics, and power. He is known for books such as Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human, which critique platform capitalism and explore how media systems shape human behavior and society.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Douglas Rushkoff emerged from an unusually cross-disciplinary education that helped shape his career as a public writer on technology and culture. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, earned an MFA in directing from the California Institute of the Arts, completed a post-graduate fellowship at the American Film Institute, and later received a PhD in New Media and Digital Culture from Utrecht University. That blend of literary study, filmmaking, and theory gave him a voice that moved easily between criticism, storytelling, and social analysis. He later became professor of media theory and digital economics at CUNY/Queens, where he founded the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. ((https://rushkoff.com/bio/))

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If you are not a true user of digital technology, then you are likely being used by digital technology
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You aren’t Facebook’s customer; those businesses are
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"Douglas Rushkoff is one of the great thinkers—and writers—of our time"

Timothy Leary

"Douglas Rushkoff’s keen eye as a seasoned media analyst, combined with his flair and wit, shine in this book"

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"Douglas Rushkoff has always been a singular observer and thinker"

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"In Team Human, the always-brilliant Douglas Rushkoff reminds us that the tools we design design us in turn"

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"Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff has a dark warning about the current state of society"

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"Douglas Rushkoff’s disguise as an “influential futurist” has enabled him to serve as a mole on behalf of our species"

Jonathan Lethem

"Douglas Rushkoff is the gold standard. He always knows what tech is up to—and he’s usually prophetic"

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