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 by Douglas Rushkoff (2011)

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)

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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