THE PERSUADERS for PBS Frontline in Fall, 2004. A behind-the-scenes look at the influence industry, and how the techniques of marketing have migrated into politics to create the "citizen consumer." Learn more, or watch the whole documentary online, here.
THE MERCHANTS OF COOL Examines the tactics, techniques, and cultural ramifications of these marketing moguls in 'The Merchants of Cool.' Rushkoff talks with top marketers, media executives and cultural/media critics, and explores the symbiotic relationship between the media and today's teens, as each looks to the other for their identity." The Merchants of Cool Website at PBS.org features interview, information, and STREAMING VIDEO of the entire documentary.
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Heroes
Rushkoff's ten favorite 'designer reality' books in The Guardian
About me: **NOTE - Doug reads all comments and eventually reads all mail, but this page is maintained by The Rushkoff Collective, cohorts who do things like this so Doug can do what he does.**
Rushkoff's new book, Life Incorporated: How The World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back. More Info
Winner of the 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 other's values. He sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it.
He has written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries - The Merchants of Cool 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 writes a monthly column for science magazine,Discover and another for the music and culture magazine, Arthur.Rushkoff's commentaries have aired on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's All Things Considered, and have appeared in publications from The New York Times to Time magazine. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times and Guardian of London, as well as a column on wireless for The Feature.
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 as a founding member of Technorealism. He has been awarded Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation, the Center for Global Communications, and the International University of Japan. He is finishing a dissertation on biases of media for Utrecht University.
He regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News to Larry King and Bill Maher. He is writing a new monthly comic book for Vertigo, and developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive.
Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies, and regularly consults on new media arts and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, and universities, as well as Sony, TCI, advertising agencies, and other Fortune 500 companies.
Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, a post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute, and a Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has worked as a certified stage fight choreographer, an SAT tutor, and as keyboardist for the industrial band PsychicTV.
Greetings Doug. Hope all is well with you. I've just started Testament Vol. 4, but am taking it slow, as I'm not really ready to be done with the series. Thanks for the work that you do, both in comics and in media literacy. Take care.
hi Doug Just finished vol 3 of 'Testament' - great stuff - and scarily prescient with all the stuff about the globo, given the current financial crisis, and calls from some politicians for a unified global financial system. cheers Ewan
The Korean Supreme Court Tuesday upheld an eight-month prison sentence for actress Kim Bu-sun, whose arrest for smoking marijuana in July 2004 led to national debate about the country's pot laws. Kim was quickly found guilty, but later filed a petition arguing that the ban on marijuana was unconstitutional. That petition was rejected by the high court, and now the court has upheld her prison sentence.
The spycam capturing the marketing of interactive marketing to marketers in 1993. Hear them cackle at your powerlessness to stop them with your own ears.
I'm still at a loss as to why I'm on Doug's top friends thingie. The fact that I'm moving down makes sense, though. Congrats on fatherhood, Doug. Kids are fun, until they start talking, and then it all goes downhill from there.
