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Douglas Rushkoff, author of 10 best-selling books on new media and the producer of two PBS Frontline documentaries, will provide the Keynote Address at the 5th Annual MOUSE Squad Educators Conference, on Thursday, April 30th.
Mr. Rushkoff's address will highlight this year's conference theme: Innovation through Participation. Through participatory media and technology, MOUSE Squad educators and students become the authors, not simply the consumers, of digital media. Learning through MOUSE programs means actively participating as part of our digital culture.
from his website:
Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He sees “media” as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and “literacy” as the ability to participate consciously in it.
His ten best-selling books on new media and popular culture have been translated to over thirty languages. They include Cyberia, Media Virus, Playing the Future, Nothing Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, and Coercion, winner of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book. Rushkoff also wrote the acclaimed novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy and graphic novel, Club Zero-G. He has just finished a book for HarperBusiness, applying renaissance principles to today’s complex economic landscape, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out. He wrote a series of graphic novels for Vertigo called Testament, and is now finishing a book on the corporate spectacle called “Life Incorporated” for RandomHouse, to be released in June 2009.
He has written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries - The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, and The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance.
Read his full bio on the Educators Conference site.
