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Purdue Libraries invites you to attend a talk by Douglas Rushkoff, author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age, on Thursday, February 20, 5:15\u20136:15 PM in WALC 1132.<\/strong> The talk is titled “Program or Be Programmed: The Biases of Digital Media\u201d and will be hosted by Libraries faculty member Melissa Chomintra and co-sponsored by Purdue University\u2019s Tech Justice Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the talk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continue to accept new technologies into our lives with little or no understanding of how these devices work and work on us. We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another, instead\u2014this is a potentially grave mistake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as the invention of text utterly transformed human society, disconnecting us from much of what we held sacred, our migration to the digital realm will also require a new template for maintaining our humanity. In this talk, Rushkoff shares the biases of digital media, and what that means for how we should use them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Douglas Rushkoff<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Rushkoff, named one of MIT\u2019s \u201cworld\u2019s ten most influential intellectuals,\u201d is an author, documentarian, and expert on digital age autonomy. His twenty books include \u201cSurvival of the Richest\u201d<\/a> and \u201cTeam Human,\u201d<\/a> and he has produced PBS Frontline documentaries like \u201cGeneration Like\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Persuaders.\u201d<\/a> Rushkoff has coined terms such as \u201cviral media\u201d and \u201csocial currency\u201d and advocates for using digital media for social justice. A professor at CUNY\/Queens and research fellow at the Institute for the Future, he is also a columnist for Medium, with his novels and comics in development for film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit Rushkoff\u2019s website<\/a> to learn more about him and his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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