Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, 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 sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it.

His ten bestselling books on new media and popular culture have been translated into over 30 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 the graphic novel, Club Zero-G.

His latest book, Get Back in the Box: Innovation From the Inside Out, looks at how the current renaissance in creativity and collaboration gives organizations the freedom to return to core competencies and reconnect with the passion that fuels true innovation.

Rushkoff has written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries — The Merchants of Cool, about the influence of corporations on youth culture, and The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance.

Rushkoff's commentaries air on CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's All Things Considered, and have appeared in publications from The New York Times to TIME magazine. For five years, he wrote the first internationally syndicated cyberculture column for The New York Times Syndicate, and he currently reaches millions of people through his commentaries on NPR, his blog at www://www.rushkoff.com and his monthly columns for Discover, the science magazine, and Arthur, a music and culture magazine.

Rushkoff founded the Narrative Lab at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world.

He is Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association, The Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and is a founding member of Technorealism. He has been awarded Senior Fellowships by the Markle Foundation and the Center for Global Communications Fellow of the International University of Japan and a rabbinic ordination by the Transformational Judaism movement.

He regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News to Larry King Live and Real Time With Bill Maher. He is writing a new monthly comic book for Vertigo and developed the Electronic Oracle software series for HarperCollins Interactive.

Rushkoff is on the board of several new media non-profits and companies and regularly consults on new media arts and ethics to museums, governments, synagogues, churches, and universities, as well as Sony, TCI, advertising agencies, and other Fortune 500 companies.

Rushkoff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He received an MFA in Directing from California Institute of the Arts, a post-graduate fellowship (MFA) from The American Film Institute, and a Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is finishing a PhD with Utrecht University, in Holland. He is also a certified stage fight choreographer and frequent keyboardist for the industrial band PsychicTV.

He lives in Park Slope Brooklyn with his wife, Barbara, and daughter Mamie.

Bibliography:
Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace	Harper Collins, 1994
The Genx Reader	Ballantine, 1994
Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture	Ballantine, 1996
Playing the Future: What We Can Learn from Digital Kids	Harper Collins, 1996
Ecstasy Club	Riverhead Books, 1998
Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say	Riverhead Books, 2000
Exit Strategy	Soft Skull Press, 2002
Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism	Crown, 2003
Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Arab-Israeli Conflict	Grove Press, 2003 (contribution by D. Rushkoff)
Club Zero-G	Disinformation, 2004
Get Back in the Box: Innovations From the Inside Out	HarperBusiness, 2005
Television / Radio:
The Merchants of Cool	PBS Frontline, 1999
The Persuaders	PBS Frontline, 2004
NPR All Things Considered	1998 — Present
CBS Sunday Morning	2001 — Present