Interview with Douglas Rushkoff


 

Publication Date: July 2009

Publisher: National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (U.S.)

Author(s): Shari Cohen

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Culture; Values; Media; Religion

Type: Other

Abstract:

Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff discusses his struggles with Judaism. He suggests that Jewish ritual and text could help sustain a "media literacy" a critical distance -- that could counter such dangerous trends, and considers the possible Jewish contribution to an increasingly global society, in a period when an orientation toward survival is no longer viable.