Doug Rushkoff --One of the Most Compelling Thinkers of Our Time--Releases New Titles on BetterListen
The audio book version of PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, as well as "Rushkoff Live: A Talk based on Program Or Be Programmed" and "Rushkoff Live: A Talk based on Life Inc." -- all by Douglas Rushkoff -- are now available on BetterListen.com. Rushkoff is considered one of the most cutting edge thinkers of our time.
- (1888PressRelease) May 19, 2011 - Douglas Rushkoff -- winner of the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity - and generally considered one of the most cutting edge thinkers of our time - has released the audiobook version of his latest book, PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, on BetterListen!com. PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED, The Audio Book, is now available as an mp3 digital download, an Audiobook App for the iPhone and iPad and on Compact Disc.
In PROGRAMMED OR BE PROGRAMMED -- a follow-up to his Frontline (PBS) documentary, "Digital Nation" and just released by OR Books -- Rushkoff addresses the debate of whether the Net is good or bad for us. For all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: it's here; it's everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? Rushkoff tells us: "Choose the former and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make." In PROGRAMMED OR BE PROGRAMMED, Rushkoff provides cyber-enthusiasts and technophobes alike with the guidelines to navigate this new universe.
Other Rushkoff programs available on BetterListen!com are "Rushkoff Live: A Talk based on Program Or Be Programmed" and "Rushkoff Live: A Talk based on Life Inc." In Life Inc, Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they're no longer even aware of it. "Rushkoff Live: A Talk based on Life Inc." In Life Inc. is being made available for free for a limited time. (Visit http://shop.betterlisten.com/products/rushkoff-live-inc-talk.)
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 teaches media studies at NYU and the New School University, serves as technology columnist for The Daily Beast, and lectures around the world. His upcoming conference, Contact - explores how to realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action and creativity (http://contactcon.com/). His 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 regularly appears on news and talk shows, and serves on numerous advisory boards, also lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world.
BetterListen! is an online media publishing label releasing mind challenging and life changing spoken word audio and media via download, disc, and audiobooks, featuring some of the most interesting thinkers and authors today. BetterListen! is proud to publish New York Times Best Selling authors including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh, Marianne Williamson, Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach, Gloria Steinem and others. Our titles are available on iTunes, Amazon, Overdrive and of course on BetterListen.com
For more information on BetterListen! products and recordings, and for review copies of BetterListen! titles, please contact Linda Woznicki, linda ( @ ) betterlisten dot com, (845) 417-8811, visit www.betterlisten.com, Like BetterListen! on Facebook and follow BetterListen! on Twitter. For additional information on Douglas Rushkoff and his work, visit http://rushkoff.com/.
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