<nettime> PhD Dissertation Douglas Rushkoff @ Utrecht University

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

> From: Menno Grootveld <rabotnik@xs4all.nl>
> Date: 24 June 2012 3:02:56 PM
> To: nettime-nl@nettime.org
> Subject: [Nettime-nl] Dissertation Rushkoff
>
> Dissertation *Monopoly moneys: the media environment of corporatism  
> and the player's way out*
>
> By analysing corporatism through the lens of media ecology, Douglas  
> Rushkoff shows how an invented set of rules became - like any  
> totalising media environment - indistinguishable from nature. He  
> concludes that while the corporatist rule set may have become the  
> default operating system of our economy, it is not necessarily  
> closed to intervention.
>
> While a closed economic operating system may have been consonant  
> with the closed, top-down media of the print and broadcast eras, as  
> Rushkoff argues, interactive technology does offer new avenues for  
> resistance and redesign. This "playability," as he describes it,  
> might yet return to economic systems in the form of digital  
> innovations such as peer to peer exchange, decentralised value  
> creation, and even new alternative currencies. This playability  
> would be a positive development for the way it would allow for human  
> intervention in a mechanism that has disproportional influence over  
> our society.
>
> Date and time:
>
> 25/6/2012 16:15
>
> Location:
>
> Academiegebouw <http://www.uu.nl/nl/academiegebouw/Pages/ 
> default.aspx> - Domplein 29, Utrecht
>
> PhD student:
>
> Douglas Rushkoff
>
> Faculty:
>
> Faculty of Humanities
>
> Thesis:
>
> Monopoly Moneys. The media environment of corporatism and the  
> player's way out
>
> Supervisor 1:
>
> Prof. dr. F.E. Kessler
>
> Supervisor 2:	
>
> Prof. dr. J.F.F. Raessens
>
> Co-supervisor 1:
>
> Dr. M.T. Schaefer
>
> *Prof. dr. Joost Raessens *|**Professor of Media Theory |Head of  
> School of Media and Culture Studies |Faculty of Humanities | Utrecht  
> University |Muntstraat 2A |Room 2.09 |NL-3512 EV Utrecht |T +31 30  
> 253 6270 / +31 611 340 241 |F +31 30 253 6167 |www.raessens.nl <http://www.raessens.nl 
> >| www.gamesandplay.nl <http://www.gamesandplay.nl>|  
> J.Raessens@uu.nl <mailto:J.Raessens@uu.nl>| OnderwijsdirecteurMCW.gw@uu.nl 
>  <mailto:OnderwijsdirecteurMCW.gw@uu.nl>


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