{{short description|American writer, lecturer, and filmmaker}} {{Infobox person | name = David Shenk | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | alma_mater = Brown University | occupation = Writer, lecturer, songwriter, author | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''David Shenk''' is an American writer, lecturer, and songwriter.
He has contributed to ''National Geographic,<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/09/how-to-survive-a-disaster.html|title=How To Survive a Disaster|first=David|last=Shenk|work=Slate |date=September 5, 2006|via=slate.com}}</ref> Slate,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/feature1/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206150756/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0311/feature1/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-02-06|title=Watching You @ National Geographic Magazine|date=February 6, 2008}}</ref> The New York Times,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/technology/techspecial2/25essay.html?_r=1&scp=13&sq=david%20shenk&st=cse|title=David Shenk, "A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society," The New York Times, January 25, 2006|work=The New York Times |date=25 January 2006 |last1=Shenk |first1=David }}</ref> Gourmet,<ref>[http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2006/05/ifyoubuildit David Shenk, "If You Build It," Gourmet, May, 2006]</ref> Harper's,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.davidshenk.com/webimages/biocapitalism-HARPERS.PDF|title=David Shenk, "Biocapitalism," Harper's Magazine, December 1997}}</ref> Wired,<ref>David Shenk, "More is Less," Wired, February, 1997</ref> The New Yorker,<ref>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</ref> ''The New Republic,''<ref>David Shenk, “Hating Gates: The Culture of Microsoft Bashing,” Cover story for The New Republic, January, 1998</ref> The Nation,<ref>David Shenk, “Money + Science = Ethics Problems on Campus,” Cover story for ''The Nation,'' March 22, 1999.</ref> The American Scholar,''<ref>David Shenk, “Toolmaker, Brain Builder,” The American Scholar, Spring, 2003</ref> NPR,<ref>David Shenk, "The Problem with Hypertext," National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," May 14, 1997</ref> and PBS. In mid-2009, he joined ''The Atlantic'' as a correspondent.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/david_shenk/ |title=David Shenk, "The Genius in All of Us," TheAtlantic.com |access-date=2009-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723074339/http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/david_shenk/ |archive-date=2009-07-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Shenk graduated from Brown University in 1988.
Shenk was also a panelist on the VH1 music review television series ''Four on the Floor''.<ref name=A>{{cite web|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-four-on-the-floor-from-left-jd-considine-amy-linden-david-adelson-128683599.html|title=Four on the Floor|publisher=Alamy|date=1994}}</ref>
== 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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/overload/david_shenk_on_data_smog.php|title=David Shenk on Data Smog|first=Russ|last=Juskalian|website=Columbia Journalism Review}}</ref> * ''The End of Patience: More Notes of Caution on the Information Revolution'' (1999) * ''The Forgetting: Alzheimer's, Portrait of An Epidemic'' (2001)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/health/conversation-with-david-shenk-forgetting-portrait-alzheimer-s-rising-toll.html|title=A CONVERSATION WITH/DAVID SHENK; 'The Forgetting': A Portrait Of Alzheimer's Rising Toll (Published 2002)|work=The New York Times |date=April 2, 2002 |last1=Roach |first1=Marion }}</ref> * ''The Immortal Game: A History of Chess'' (2006)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dirda |first=Michael |date=2006-10-29 |title=From ancient Persia to the digital age, people have sat across from each other and said, "It's your move." |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2006/10/29/from-ancient-persia-to-the-digital-age-people-have-sat-across-from-each-other-and-said-its-your-move-span-classbankheadfrom-ancient-persia-to-the-digital-age-people-have-sat-across-from-each-other-and-said-its-your-movespan/1000e508-98fb-4aa8-85d7-3d6053301339/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=2025-04-29 |work=The Washington Post |page=T15 |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> * ''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/about/index.html |title="About The Forgetting: The Documentary" |website=PBS |access-date=2017-08-26 |archive-date=2016-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329044623/http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/about/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The film was directed by Elizabeth Arledge.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ket.org/forgetting/pdf/forgetting_guide.pdf |title="A Discussion Guide for THE FORGETTING" |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-date=2009-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406213645/http://www.ket.org/forgetting/pdf/forgetting_guide.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Shenk appeared in the film and served as a writer and consultant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tv.yahoo.com/the-forgetting-a-portrait-of-alzheimer-39-s/show/43352/castcrew|title="Show Description, Cast & Crew," Yahoo TV}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/watch/index.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920055249/http://www.pbs.org/theforgetting/watch/index.html|title=The Forgetting . Watch the Documentary (English)|archivedate=September 20, 2016|website=www.pbs.org}}</ref>
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.<ref>"Sarah Polley, Home and 'Away," NPR's The Bryant Park Project, January 9, 2008</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://movies.about.com/od/polleysarah/a/awayfrom050207.htm |title=About.com |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-date=2010-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430225715/http://movies.about.com/od/polleysarah/a/awayfrom050207.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 2007, Shenk wrote, produced and directed four short films on Alzheimer's disease.<ref>[http://www.aboutalz.org "A Quick Look At Alzheimer's: Four "Pocket" Films to Increase Understanding of a 21st Century Epidemic" "]</ref>
== Awards and honors == * 1995: Fellow, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss31/record2031.37.html|title=13 Media Professionals Named Fellows by Freedom Forum Center|website=www.columbia.edu}}</ref> * 1997: Finalist, McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy<ref>Mari Frank, "Protect Your Privacy in the Information Age," KUCI, Irvine, California</ref> * 1998: Fellow, The Japan Society<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japaninc.com/cpj/magazine/issues/1999/feb99/Interview.html|title=Interview with David Shenk|website=www.japaninc.com}}</ref> * 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bma.org.uk/pressrel.nsf/wlu/SGOY-5FML8T?OpenDocument&vw=wfmms|title=British Medical Association}}</ref> * 2004: Shenk's original term "data smog" added to the Oxford English Dictionary<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ysQhRjcHhkQC&dq=data+smog+oxford+english+dictionary&pg=PA152|title=Rick Thompson, ''Writing for Broadcast Journalists'', Routledge, 2005}}</ref> * 2006: ''The Immortal Game'' picked as a ''Globe and Mail'' <ref>"The Globe 100," The Globe and Mail, Nov. 25, 2006</ref> Top Book of 2006 and ''Toronto Star'' Top 100 Book of 2006<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385662277 |title=Random House Canada |access-date=2009-06-08 |archive-date=2012-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320060131/http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385662277 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{official website|http://davidshenk.com}} * {{IMDb name|3866336}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090723074339/http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/david_shenk/ Shenk's blog at ''The Atlantic''] * {{C-SPAN|48892}}
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