Douglas Rushkoff Audio & Video

In this superb follow up to his Frontline documentary The Merchants of Cool, Frontline filmmaker Douglas Rushkoff tries to figure out what is happening at the intersection of teens and corporate marketing in this new digital age.

Today's teenagers have money and independence, their lives the object of obsessive focus by corporate America. FRONTLINE explores the culture of today's teenagers and how they view themselves and their parents.

Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of distributed prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids.

In this PBS documentary Frontline turns its eye to our digital age and how the ubiquitousness of computers and the Internet are transforming our lives. They examine the role of digital technology from many angles, but primarily focus on its role in education.

Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda.

Frontline examines the "persuasion industries" -- advertising and public relations. To cut through consumers' growing resistance to their pitches, marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages into the fabric of our lives…

Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by Twitter, email, and a so-called real-time technological shift....

In this stimulating talk from media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, he argues that programming and media literacy are essential tools that need to be taught in order for citizens in our digital age to control the power of the Internet...

In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse.

Author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff joined Book TV to talk and take calls about the digital revolution and its consequences, human autonomy, cyberculture, and more. His 20 books include Present Shock, Team Human, and Survival of the Richest.