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So what distinguishes Rushkoff's masters's program from the thousands of others created by university professors (hint: it's not that "it matters"). "Instead of training people to become marketers or to write the next useless phone app, we're going to support people who want to see through the media, and use it to wage attacks on the status quo," Rushkoff says. "This is media studies for Occupiers." But more significantly, "I want to teach a diverse range of students without putting them into lifelong debt," says Rushkoff. Of course there's still that whole travel and tuition hurdle to surmount.

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