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  • Published: 1 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9781573228299
  • Imprint: Riverhead
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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Coercion

Why We Listen to What "They" Say



Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future Douglas 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, consumerism in America, and why we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.

  • Published: 1 October 2000
  • ISBN: 9781573228299
  • Imprint: Riverhead
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff is professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens/CUNY. Named one of the world’s ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he hosts the Team Human podcast and has written many award-winning books. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

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