MURFREESBORO — Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff will tackle the pervasiveness of
social media in our culture — for good and bad — Monday, April 6, at a free
public lecture at MTSU.
The 7 p.m. lecture, titled “Don't
Sell Your Friends: How Social Media Became Social Programming,” is planned for
Room 221 of MTSU’s McWherter Learning Resources Center. A searchable campus map
with parking details is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
Rushkoff
is the author of “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” as well
as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology and culture. He’s known
for coining terms and concepts including “viral media,” “digital native” and
“social currency” and is a professor of media theory and digital economics at City
University of New York, Queens College.
In both
his books and lectures, Rushkoff frequently explores the themes of how to make
media interactive and how to help people — especially children— effectively
analyze and question the media they consume.
Rushkoff earned his doctorate in new media and digital culture from Utrecht University with a dissertation on “Monopoly Moneys: The Media Environment of Corporatism and the Player's Way Out.” He received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Princeton University and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in directing from California Institute of the Arts.
His
credentials also include a post-graduate fellowship from The American Film
Institute, a Fulbright award to lecture on narrative in New Zealand and a
Director's Grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Rushkoff’s
visit is sponsored by the MTSU Distinguished Lecture Fund, the John
Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at MTSU, the Tom T.
Hall Writers Series, MTSU’s College of Mass Communication and College of
Liberal Arts, and the Department of Electronic Media Communication at MTSU.
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