Coercion
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Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff
Noted media pundit and author of Playing the FutureDouglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt to take away our ability to make rational decisions, Rushkoff delivers a bracing account of media ecology today, consumerismin America, andwhy we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist who specializes in human autonomy in the digital era. He teaches at CUNY/Queens, runs the Team Human podcast, and is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Present Shock, which MIT named one of the world's 10 most important intellectuals. Hastings-on-Hudson, New York is his home.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781573228299 |
| ISBN 10 | 157322829X |
| Title | Coercion |
| Author | Douglas Rushkoff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2000-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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