Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt to take away our ability to make rational decisions, Rushkoff delivers a bracing account of media ecology today, consumerism in America, and why we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.
| ISBN: | 9781573228299 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2000 |
| Author: | Douglas Rushkoff |
| Publisher: | Riverhead Books an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 293 pages |
| Genres: |
Social, group or collective psychology Media studies Political control and freedoms |
Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future Douglas Rushkoff gives a devastating critique of the influence techniques behind our culture of rampant consumerism. With a skilled analysis of how experts in the fields of marketing, advertising, retail atmospherics, and hand-selling attempt to take away our ability to make rational decisions, Rushkoff delivers a bracing account of media ecology today, consumerism in America, and why we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.
Coercion features in the following genres: Social, group or collective psychology, Media studies, Political control and freedoms
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Coercion was written by Douglas Rushkoff and published by Riverhead Books an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group
Coercion has 293 pages