He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist and is known for coining terms and concepts including viral. This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others especially. Its only our attachment to the pain and suffering of. Todays leading thinkers on the unthinkable, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The more complex, technological, and invisible coercion gets, he writes, the harder it is for us to rely on our ability to detect the hard sell. See all books authored by douglas rushkoff, including present shock. Cyberia is about a very special moment in our recent history a moment.
The book discusses many different ideas revolving around technology, drugs and subcultures. Why we listen to what they say paperback october 1, 2000. Winner of the media ecology associations first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each others values. Life in the trenches of hyperspace clinamen press ltd. Yet such coercion is not restricted to the usual world of commerce. Douglas rushkoff, author of what is your dangerous idea. Douglas ruskoffs previous books including cyberia and media virushave been translated into thirteen languages.
Terence mckenna, dubbed the copernicus of consciousness by the village voice, whose writings have spearheaded the psychedelic renaissance. Douglas rushkoff managed to snap a picture at the very crest of that wave, capturing the philosophies, personalities and chemistries that made it a moment of such. Excerpt from coercion by douglas rushkoff, plus links to. Douglas rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, technology, and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion, nothing sacred. Rushkoff distances himself from previous arguments in cyberia and media virus, in which he staked out internetoptimistic positions based upon its potential to counter coercion. His other books include cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. Douglas rushkoff emerged as a media commentator in 1994 with his first book, cyberia. When everything happens now, and program or be programmed ten commands for a digital age, and more on.
Douglas rushkoffs career as a journalist took off in 1994 with the publication of cyberia. He has made the pbs frontline documentaries digital nation, the persuaders, and merchants of cool. Program or be programmed ten commands for a digital age. Listen in on conversations with dozens of cyberians, including. Douglas rushkoff is the author of 10 bestselling books on media and culture, including cyberia, media virus. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. They include cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. Buy this book this heady report takes readers on a dizzying and dangerous guided tour through. He has also written and presented two documentaries, the merchants of cool and the persuaders. Unfortunately, not everyone to whom we surrender this control has our best interests at heart. His debut examined the early psychedelic, rave roots of digital technology. Social movements such as the promise keepers do demographic research on the psychological needs of prospective members and structure rallies accordingly. Thanks to technologies like the computer, the modem. The digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence.
Douglas ruskoffs previous booksincluding cyberia and media virushave been translated into thirteen languages. By touting the value of thinking outside the box, business experts have inspired an obsession with growth, competition and offbeat concepts, says rushkoff cyberia. Coercion by douglas rushkoff summary by andras konya. Why we listen to what they say by douglas rushkoff at indigo. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels ecstasy club and exit strategy and graphic novel, club zerog. Why we listen to what they say by rushkoff, douglas isbn. Douglas rushkoff is the author of 12 books on technology, media and pop culture, including coercion, media virus, playing the future and cyberia, the first book on cyber culture.
For more information about douglas rushkoffs book, life inc. Cyberia is a book by douglas rushkoff, published in 1994. Coercion goodreads share book recommendations with. Rushkoff himself has distanced himself widely from the rhetoric used in this book, but even this does not discredit this as a seminal text when looking at the.
Douglas rushkoff paperback october 1, 2002 the digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence, and the tension from the very first between corporate hightech and the appropriation of information technologies by the counterculture. Preface to the 1994 paperback edition a lot has happened in the year or so since i wrote this book. Gruen 20 days in the life of a 21st century virtual city simulation. Douglas rushkoff public affairs convocation public. Winner of the 2002 marshal mcluhan award for best media book. Ralph abraham, cyberias village mathematician, a bearded technosage whose mathematical equations explain the shifting, hyperdimensional cyberian turf. Douglas rushkoff has 47 books on goodreads with 31792 ratings.
A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. They say that youre using only ten percent of your brain. Life in the trenches of hyperspace, douglas rushkoff extolled the democratic promise of the thenemergent internet, but the once optimistic author has grown a bit disillusioned with what the netand the rest of the worldhas become. But i think that a certain part of judaism is over. In coercion douglas rushkoff argues that we each have our own theysbosses, experts, and authorities both real and imaginary who have taken over much of the decisionmaking power in our lives. Cyberia 1994 was cyberculture theorist douglas rushkoffs first book, written. Life in the trenches of hyperspace and media virus hidden agendas in popular culture. Ten commands for a digital age, he shows us how we can take command of new technologies and gain access to the. A good book to read this book against would be escape velocity by mark dery, which is a little more down to earth, covers some similar material, and contains a counterpoint to cyberia. His exuberantly written, disturbing coercion may induce paranoia in readers as it illuminates the countless ways. Douglas rushkoff is the winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, and life inc. Even wall street and the stock market, claims rushkoff, are giant shell games of manipulation and control. Like their print counterparts, these programs broadcast stories that more established news agencies would have held backwhich in turn gave rise to a whole new set of journalistic standards and an unleashing of alternative news sources and outlets.
Named one of the worlds ten most influential intellectuals by mit, douglas. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media or. Douglas rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each others values. In the past, rushkoff has been a cheerleader for the liberating potentialities of the internet and other interactive technology. Douglas rushkoffs most popular book is program or be programmed. The low cost of video production and the increase in available channels gave rise to countless tabloid television shows. Douglas rushkoff has written ten books on new media and popular culture including cyberia, media virus, playing the future, nothing sacred. With illustrations by leland purvis thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have todayand douglas rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking. Innovation from the inside out and coercion, winner of the marshall mcluhan award for best media book. Life in the trenches of cyberspace by douglas rushkoff. How the world became a corporation and how to take it back check out. He is professor of media theory and digital economics at cunyqueens. Rushkoff was suddenly in demand as a media consultant to the united nations commission on world culture and, for fees of five thousand dollars an hour.
Douglas rushkoff born 18 february 1961 is an american media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. Douglas rushkoff books list of books by author douglas. Douglas mark rushkoff born february 18, 1961 is an american media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. Between 1996 and 2001 he wrote a column on interactive culture for the new york times and the guardian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Rushkoff takes a tom wolfe electric koolaid acid test style or roman a clef, as he actively becomes a part of the people and culture that he is writing about. He sees media as the landscape where this interaction takes place and literacy as the ability to participate consciously in it. Indeed as rushkoff shows, most americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that theyre no longer even aware of it. His book coercion won the marshall mcluhan award, and the media ecology. Winner of the first neil postman award for career achievement in public intellectual activity, douglas rushkoff has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan a. He believes one day we will tire of all of this coercion and that we will want to think for ourselves. He has written a dozen bestselling books on media and society, including cyberia, media virus, coercion winner of the marshall mcluhan award, get back in the box, life inc.
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