David Shenk

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David Shenk is an American writer, lecturer, and songwriter.

He has contributed to National Geographic,[1] Slate,[2] The New York Times,[3] Gourmet,[4] Harper's,[5] Wired,[6] The New Yorker,[7] The New Republic,[8] The Nation,[9] The American Scholar,[10] NPR[11] and PBS. In mid-2009, he joined The Atlantic as a correspondent.[12] He is a 1988 graduate of Brown University.

Shenk was also a panelist on the VH1 music review television series Four on the Floor.[13]

Books

Shenk has published the following books:

  • Skeleton Key: A Dictionary For Deadheads (1994) (Co-written with Steve Silberman)
  • Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (1997)[14]
  • The End of Patience: More Notes of Caution on the Information Revolution (1999)
  • The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of An Epidemic (2001)[15]
  • The Immortal Game: A History of Chess (2006)[16]
  • The Genius In All Of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong (2010)

Films

In 2004, PBS broadcast the Emmy award-winning "The Forgetting," which was inspired by Shenk's book of the same name.[17] The film was directed by Elizabeth Arledge.[18] Shenk appeared in the film and served as a writer and consultant.[19][20]

In 2006, "The Forgetting" was featured on-screen and read aloud in the Sarah Polley film Away From Her. Polley said that the book was "hugely influential" to her in making the film.[21][22]

In 2007, Shenk wrote, produced and directed four short films on Alzheimer's disease.[23]

Awards and honors

  • 1995: Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University[24]
  • 1997: Finalist, McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy[25]
  • 1998: Fellow, The Japan Society[26]
  • 2000: Named one of "10 Masters of the New Economy" by CIO magazine.
  • 2001: The Forgetting awarded First Prize, British Medical Association's Popular Medical Book Awards[27]
  • 2004: Shenk's original term "data smog" added to the Oxford English Dictionary[28]
  • 2006: The Immortal Game picked as a Globe and Mail [29] Top Book of 2006 and Toronto Star Top 100 Book of 2006[30]

References

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  4. ↑ David Shenk, "If You Build It," Gourmet, May, 2006
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  6. ↑ David Shenk, "More is Less," Wired, February, 1997
  7. ↑ David Shenk, “DEPT. OF TIMING: It’s Never a Good Moment to Ask Americans to Turn off The TV,” The New Yorker, May 10, 1999
  8. ↑ David Shenk, “Hating Gates: The Culture of Microsoft Bashing,” Cover story for The New Republic, January, 1998
  9. ↑ David Shenk, “Money + Science = Ethics Problems on Campus,” Cover story for The Nation, March 22, 1999.
  10. ↑ David Shenk, “Toolmaker, Brain Builder,” The American Scholar, Spring, 2003
  11. ↑ David Shenk, "The Problem with Hypertext," National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," May 14, 1997
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  21. ↑ "Sarah Polley, Home and 'Away," NPR's The Bryant Park Project, January 9, 2008
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  23. ↑ "A Quick Look At Alzheimer's: Four "Pocket" Films to Increase Understanding of a 21st Century Epidemic" "
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  25. ↑ Mari Frank, "Protect Your Privacy in the Information Age," KUCI, Irvine, California
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  29. ↑ "The Globe 100," The Globe and Mail, Nov. 25, 2006
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