# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-rushkoff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:35:44.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-rushkoff"
name: "Douglas Rushkoff"
slug: "douglas-rushkoff"
description: "Douglas Mark Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, professor, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, documentarian and podcaster. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems, his critique of technocapitalism, and his call to retrieve our humanity in a digital age."
tagline: "American writer and media theorist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2023-09-13_Douglas_Ruskoff_no_Fronteiras_do_Pensamento_2023_em_Porto_Alegre_(53188358494)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1961-02-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump