Media Quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

9 Media quotes by Douglas Rushkoff

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Douglas Rushkoff’s commentary on media is both tech‑savvy and cultural. Across nine short quotes you’ll catch his nuanced view of how digital platforms reshape society.

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I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

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It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new…

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No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the…

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Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while,…

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Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted…

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Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that…

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Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So…

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This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment…

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Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend…

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“And spend they did. Money circulated faster and spread wider through its communities of use than at any other time in economic history.8 Workers…

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Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to…

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Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us…

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What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as…

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Digiphrenia - how technology lets us be in more than one place - and self - at the same time. Drone pilots suffer more…

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A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

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Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and…

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In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a…

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“Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.”

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Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving…

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We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my…

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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

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