Articles tagged "rushkoff"

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Three years after Facebook-friendly dissidents took to the streets of Tehran and made techno-optimists giddy about the Internet's liberating potential, things have gotten bleak. Once again, the mullahs are taking on democracy-minded netizens -- but n…

For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on. When I visited him at his storefront office near his home in Hastings on Hudson, New York, he was preparing to teach a n…

It’s only been a week, but already everyone’s acting like nothing’s changed. Facebook announced its astronomical $5 billion initial public offering last Wednesday, giving it a valuation somewhere in the ballpark of "$75 billion to $100 billion":ht…