UBC’s
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs is thrilled to host a virtual ev
ent with Douglas Rushkoff
Welcome remarks : Dr. Allison Macfarlane\, Professor and Director\, School of Publ ic Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC
Moderator: Taylor Owen\, Beaverbr ook Chair in Media\, Ethics and Communications\, Founding Director of The C enter for Media\, Technology and Democracy\, and Associate Professor\, Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University
Talk Title: Distributed A New Operating System for Business and the Economy
In this inspiring talk\, drawing fro m his book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus \, Douglas Rushkoff will offer a new program for business in the digital la ndscape.
Digital technolog y was supposed to usher in a new age of endless prosperity\, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids. Social networks sur render their missions to data mining\, while brokerage houses abandon inves ting for algorithms—tactics driven by the need to stoke growth by any means necessary. Internet startups sell for billions\, but destroy more jobs tha n they create\, extract more cash from circulation than they put in\, and d isrupt entire marketplaces and neighborhoods in the process. We know that s omething’s wrong—but we’re not sure how to fix it\, or even what to call it .
Media scholar and techno logy author Douglas Rushkoff argues for a new economic program that utilize s the unique distributive power of the internet to break free of the winner -take-all game defining business today. In this keynote\, Dr. Rushkoff will offer a series of practical steps for businesses\, consumers\, investors\, and policymakers to remake the economy from the inside out—and prosper alo ng the way.
Learn more abo ut the 2022 “The Future of Media” serie s. Each event is open to the public and fre e to attend.
Series Theme: Media is at a crossroads. Full-ti me journalists and long-form reporting have been forced to cede public spac e to click bait news articles\, online echo chambers\, and disinformation c ampaigns. It has never been more challenging to inform the public\, to brid ge political divides\, and to stimulate healthy debate.
Yet trust in mass media has never been lower \, with only 9% of Americans trusting the media “a great deal” and 60% havi ng “little to no trust at all.” From the rise of social media to the erosio n of traditional business models to the deep political polarization in Amer ican society\, how we as citizens consume information has fundamentally cha nged.
This series explore s these changes\, but more importantly asks where we go from here. How can we restore trust? How do we reconcile evidence-based reporting with the dig ital age? And above all\, how can we reshape the media landscape in the fac e of these challenges to better society?
Find books authored by Douglas Rushkoff on the UBC Bookstore website .
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