Douglas Rushkoff
Media Theorist, Author & Host of Team Human
- Role
- Professor of Media Studies and Activism at Queens College
- Location
- Hastings-On-Hudson, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Douglas Rushkoff
Media and cultural theorist, author of twenty books on technology and society including Survival of the Richest, Media Virus, Cyberia, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Program or Be Programmed. Host of the Team Human podcast and upcoming Team Human manifesto. Best known for coining terms like Media Virus, Social Media, and Digital Natives, as well as making the PBS Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool, Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism. Fellow of the Institute for the Future, and advisor to numerous non-profits. Keyboardist for PsychicTV, and Scholar-in-Residence at CX. Speaker represented by http://thelavinagency.com/
Experience
Professor of Media Studies and Activism
Jan 2014 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
The American Film Institute
Post Graduate Fellowship
1986 — 1987
Princeton University
BA
1979 — 1983
California Institute of the Arts
MFA
1983 — 1986
Universiteit Utrecht / University of Utrecht
PhD
2003 — 2012
Skills
- Editing
- New Media
- Information Architecture
- Research
- User Experience
- Content Strategy
- Social Media
- Social Networking
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