Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
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Noted media pundit and author of Playing the FutureDouglas 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, consumerismin America, andwhy we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.
Author: Douglas Rushkoff
Format: Paperback, 304 pages, 133mm x 202mm, 266 g
Published: 2000, Penguin Putnam Inc, United States
Genre: Social Studies: General
Description
Noted media pundit and author of Playing the FutureDouglas 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, consumerismin America, andwhy we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.
Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say