From: Menno Grootveld <[email protected]>
Date: 24 June 2012 3:02:56 PM
To: [email protected]
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
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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
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