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Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is author of, among his ten books, Playing the Future , Open Source Democracy , and Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy , the graphic novel, Club Zero-G , and the comic book series Testament . He has written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries, "The Merchants of Cool," which looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, and "The Persuaders," about the cluttered landscape of marketing and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance. Rushkoff’s commentaries air on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR’s All Things Considered , and have appeared in publications from the New York Times to Time magazine. His column on cyberculture is distributed globally through the New York Times Syndicate. He is Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association, The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and was a founding member of Technorealism. He has been awarded Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation and the Center for Global Communications of the International University of Japan. He regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News to Larry King and Bill Maher. He developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive. He is currently a PhD candidate at Utrecht University’s New Media Program, writing a dissertation on new media literacies.
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Books
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff (2010)
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back by Douglas Rushkoff (2009)
Testament (volumes 1-4) by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)
Get Back in the Box : Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)
Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism by Doug Rushkoff (2005)
Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff (2003)
Exit Strategy: A novel by Douglas Rushkoff (2002)
Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace by Douglas Rushkoff (2002)
Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say by Douglas Rushkoff (2000)
Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids by Douglas Rushkoff (1999)
Playing the Future by Douglas Rushkoff (1999)
Ecstasy Club: A novel by Douglas Rushkoff (1998)
Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture by Douglas Rushkoff (1996)
Free Rides: Ways to Get High without Drugs by Douglas Rushkoff (1995)
The GenX Reader by Douglas Rushkoff (1994)
Articles
"CNN: Why I am learning to code and you should, too" Rushkoff
Jan 17, 2012
"Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don’t get it." CNN
Oct 6, 2011
"Are jobs obsolete?" CNN
Sep 16, 2011
"Why Johnny Can’t Program" Huffington Post
Oct 2, 2010
"Too Big to Fail? The BP Bailout as Corporatism" Douglas Rushkoff
Jun 12, 2010
"Corporations as Uber-Citizens" Rushkoff.com
Jan 22, 2010
"Google’s Velvet Rope" The Daily Beast
Oct 15, 2009
"How the World Became a Corporation" WorldChanging
Sep 3, 2009
"Economics is Not a Natural Science" Edge.org
Aug 21, 2009
"Health Care Reform Without Public Option is Just Corporatism, Not Socialism" Douglas Rushkoff
Aug 20, 2009
"How Iran’s Hackers Killed Big Brother" The Daily Beast
Jun 20, 2009
"How Google Trained Your Brain" The Daily Beast
Jun 5, 2009
"Obama’s Internet Misfire" The Daily Beast
Jun 5, 2009
"Life Inc. pt 1: Your Money or Your Life: A Lesson on the Front Stoop" Life Inc.
May 11, 2009
"In Defense of the Dark Ages" Rushkoff.com
Apr 21, 2009
"Stimulus, Ass-Backwards" Arthur Magazine
Apr 20, 2009
"Hacking the Economy" h+ Magazine
Apr 5, 2009
"Hack Money, Hack Banking" Arthur Magazine
Mar 22, 2009
"Anticipating President Obama" Technology, Media, and Popular Culture
Nov 6, 2008
"No Money Down" Arthur Magazine
Oct 4, 2008
"Financial Melt Up" Technology, Media, and Popular Culture
Sep 17, 2008
"The Hate Party" Technology, Media, and Popular Culture
Sep 4, 2008
"Beyond Brand Obama" Technology, Media, and Popular Culture
Jun 9, 2008
"Riding Out the Credit Crisis" Arthur
May 4, 2008
"What You Can Learn from Zombie Movies" Discover Magazine
Aug 16, 2007
"What makes me Optimistic: Human Beings Are Different" The Edge
Jan 2, 2007
"Idiocy and the Sublime" Rushkoff.com
Jan 2, 2007
"The Light at the End of the Reality Tunnel" Arthur
Dec 27, 2006
"Creating an alternative value system" Re-public
Dec 14, 2006
"Testament Online - For Free!" rushkoff.com
Nov 16, 2006
"Inbox: In 2033, age 70 is the new 30" Nerve
Oct 12, 2006
"Inside & Outside Boxes" NeoFiles
Feb 3, 2006
"Final Thought Virus: It’s Supposed to be Fun" Get Back in the Box
Dec 12, 2005
"Thought Virus #4: Follow the Fun" Excerpt from Get Back in the Box
Nov 29, 2005
"Reading the Consumer Mind" New York Press
Nov 25, 2005
"Open Source and the Authorship Society"
Nov 12, 2005
"Evolution as a Team Sport" Ethical Technology
Nov 3, 2005
"Get Back In The Box: Thought Virus #1: One Thing" Rushkoff.com
Nov 1, 2005
"Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics" Published by Demos
Nov 29, 2003
Recent Multimedia
TechnoLiteracy as Democratic Empowerment 2011-05-13
Program or Be Programmed 2011-03-23
IEET Fellow Canonized as Saint 2011-03-18
Taking Control of Our Cyberlife 2010-11-21
Rushkoff’s Rules for the Digital Age 2010-11-02
Ten Commands for a Digital Age 2010-03-28
Digital Nation 2010-02-03
Captain Picard on Digital Life 2010-02-01
Radical Abundance: How We Get Past “Free” and Learn to Exchange Value Again 2009-11-22
Capitalism, for Dummies 2009-07-19
News
Rushkoff’s new graphic novel (Jan 11, 2012)
Doug Rushkoff’s New Book Out (Aug 29, 2010)
Doug’s Frontline Series ‘Digital Nation’ Airs February 2 at 9pm (Jan 22, 2010)
Life Inc. video dispatches and audiobook available (Jul 03, 2009)
Doug Rushkoff’s New Radio Show and NPR TV Series (Apr 21, 2009)
Doug Rushkoff’s Life Inc. Available for Pre-order (Mar 08, 2009)
Doug’s new radio show (Jan 28, 2009)
Rushkoff’s Life Incorporated: The Course (Jan 07, 2009)
Bostrom, de Grey, Rushkoff answer Edge’s Big Question for 2009 (Jan 02, 2009)
Doug guestblogs at BoingBoing (Sep 22, 2008)
Doug Rushkoff’s Testament series is complete (Sep 01, 2008)
Update from Doug Rushkoff (Jul 24, 2008)
Doug’s Testament Series Wraps Up (Jan 22, 2008)
Rushkoff’s Third Testament Series Graphic Novel Out (Dec 03, 2007)
Doug’s new course on mass media mind control (Sep 17, 2007)
Rushkoff’s Testament: The Final Arc(k) (Aug 06, 2007)
Doug Rushkoff teaching “Technologies of Persuasion” (Jun 14, 2007)
Doug’s second Testament Book, West of Eden, is out (Jan 22, 2007)
The first ‘Testament’ collection on Sale (Jul 28, 2006)
Rushkoff on the Future on CNN (Mar 14, 2006)
Boing Boing interviews Doug Rushkoff about his Testament comic book (Jan 31, 2006)
Douglas Rushkoff’s last book is out!!! (Dec 12, 2005)
Doug Rushkoff’s TESTAMENT #1 (Nov 24, 2005)
IEET Fellow Douglas Rushkoff’s new book (Nov 08, 2005)
Past Appearances
Rushkoff @ Contact Summit 2011 (Angel Orensanz Center, New York City, NY USA - Oct 20, 2011)
Douglas Rushkoff keynotes Webvisions (Oregon, US - May 24, 2011)
Rushkoff on Broadway (NYC, NY - Mar 29, 2011)
Rushkoff @ NYC Future Salon (NYC, NY - Mar 28, 2011)
Premiere of Doug Rushkoff’s Digital Nation (PBS - Feb 02, 2010)
Doug on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better - Edge.org ( - Jan 29, 2008)
Rushkoff talks on Testament (New York City - Feb 28, 2007)
Rushkoff on the future at Comic-Con (New York City - Feb 23, 2007)