Douglas Rushkoff
Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who
focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share,
and influence each other’s values. He is technology and media
commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and
has taught and lectured around the world about media, technology,
culture and economics. At Border Sessions Douglas Rushkoff will be
interviewed (via Skype) about his new book.
Border Sessions 2013 - Thu, 14 Nov 2013
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff's new book Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now,
explores the always-on, simultaneous society in which we live, as well
as how this new temporal landscape influences media, culture, economics
and politics. His previous best-selling books on media and popular
culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to
his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation, and Life Inc, an analysis of
the corporate spectacle, which was also made into a short, award-winning
film.
