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Douglas Rushkoff

출생: 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.

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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
-Why I Am Learning to Code and You Should, Too
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You aren’t Facebook’s customer; those businesses are
-Do You Use Your Technology or Does It Use You?
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They’re all just programs, and they’re all absolutely accessible to anyone who cares to learn the code
-Do You Use Your Technology or Does It Use You?
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New media require new literacies
-We Interrupt This Program
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All systems have embedded purposes
-Why Johnny Can't Program
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Human beings are not the problem. We are the solution
-Program or Be Programmed
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To a computer, everything is a computational challenge
-Program or Be Programmed
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We're chasing a now that doesn't really exist
-A Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff
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Do you want to run a business or do you want to sell a business?
-Staying Human in the Machine Age

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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"

Marina Gorbis

"Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff"

Parker Posey

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

Kurt Andersen

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

Jason Silva

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

The Washington Post

"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"

Walter Kirn

"Visionary NYU professor and charter cyberpunker Douglas Rushkoff"

WIRED

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