Peer Review

Peer Review: Outsourced Boredom

Technology isn't ending mind-numbing work—it's moving it across the world. 02.27.2007

Peer Review: Fighting the Terrorist Virus

If terrorism is cultivated by modern media, how do we fight it? 12.04.2006

Peer Review: Sharing Our Urban Organisms

A new book contends that urban density makes eco-sense. 11.01.2006

Peer Review: Too Clear for Comfort

The increased detail of HDTV may decrease our viewing pleasure. 10.09.2006

Peer Review: Invading Our Own Privacy

We grumble about prying eyes, yet we love to upload our identities onto the Web. 09.02.2006

About Peer Review

Douglas Rushkoff looks at pop culture through a scientific lens in his column, and takes on everything from terrorism to slime mold in the process. "I'm always looking for intelligent life in our increasingly depersonalized media space; when I find any sign of hope, I share it," he says.

A professor of communications at New York University, Rushkoff is the author of 12 provocative books including Get Back in the Box (HarperCollins, 2005) and Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say (Riverhead, 1999), which won the 2002 Marshall McLuhan Award for best media book. He is currently working on a biblically inspired comic book series called Testament for DC/Vertigo.