num_pages: 304
description: Noted media pundit and author of Playing the Future   Douglas 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, consumerism in America, and why we buy what we buy, helping us recognize when we're being treated like consumers instead of human beings.
language: English
title: Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
titlecomplete: Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
genres: Sociology, Psychology, History, Science, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Communication, Politics, Cultural, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 564
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Marshall McLuhan Award
category: Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology
publisher: Riverhead Books