Douglas Rushkoff is a digital media expert, graphic novelist, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is also a 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.
He is the author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club. Ruskoff also wrote the graphic novels Testament and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation.
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APR 30, 2014 • Podcast
A Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff, Digital Media Expert, Graphic Novelist and Documentarian
With the advent of new means of interaction from the TV remote to Twitter, the media became a two-way conversation, says Douglas Rushkoff. But who ...