{"id":6006,"date":"2014-07-07T17:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2014-07-07T17:31:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:31:29","slug":"the-diploma-is-the-message-doug-rushkoff-invents-a-masters-program-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6006","title":{"rendered":"The Diploma is the Message: Doug Rushkoff Invents a Master\u2019s Program That Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/magazine.good.is\/articles\/the-diploma-is-the-message\">Jed Oelbaum<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As you sit back in your Aeron chair, drinking stale office coffee and letting your eyes swim out of focus in the artificial glow of your MacBook, take a moment to consider where you went wrong. You were going to be great! You were going to write a book, or go to law school and represent the poor and oppressed, or something. Face it \u2013 it\u2019s probably time to quit your job and do something exciting. Why not go back to school? God knows your job isn\u2019t making you any smarter. The rat race will be there when you get back. And while your stupid friends are slaving away towards their grad degrees in fetid hellholes like Cambridge and New Haven, you could be a pioneering student of the future in the veritable heaven on Earth that is Queens, NY.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;City University of New York\u2019s Queens College and digital media theorist Douglas Rushkoff are teaming up to create a Master\u2019s program in Media Studies for the technologically minded, socially conscious upstarts who will define the way we see the world for years to come. \u201cInstead of training people to become marketers or to write the next useless phone app, we\u2019re going to support people who want to see through the media, and use it to wage attacks on the status quo,\u201d Rushkoff says. \u201cThis is media studies for Occupiers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jed Oelbaum: As you sit back in your Aeron chair, drinking stale office coffee and letting your eyes swim out of focus in the artificial glow of your MacBook, take a moment to consider where you went wrong. You were going to be great! You were going to write a book, or go to law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6007,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}