Generation Like

Douglas Rushkoff
2014-02-18

Are kids using social media or is social media using kids?
7
54 min

Thanks to social media, teens are able to directly interact with their culture - celebrities, movies, brands - in ways never before possible. But is that real empowerment? Or do marketers hold the upper hand? Douglas Rushkoff explores how the teen quest for identity has migrated to the web – and exposes the game of cat-and-mouse that corporations are playing with them.

Cast

Name Character Team
Will Lyman Narrator (voice) Unowned
Douglas Rushkoff Self Unowned
Fred Durst Self (archive footage) Unowned
Tyler Oakley Self Unowned
Bonin Bough Self Unowned
Stephen Colbert Self (archive footage) Unowned
Charles Duhigg Self Unowned
Oli White Self Unowned
Louise Pentland Self (archive footage) Unowned
Hannah Hart Self (archive footage) Unowned
Shane Dawson Self (archive footage) Unowned
Liam Horne Self Unowned
Acacia Brinley Self (archive footage) Unowned
Oliver Luckett Self Unowned
Steven Fernandez Self Unowned
Danah Boyd Self Unowned
Angel Aparicio Self Unowned
Seth Godin Self Unowned
Ian Somerhalder Self Unowned
Kendra Campbell-Milburn Self Unowned
Dimitry Ioffe Self Unowned
Brooks Barnes Self Unowned
Jane Buckingham Self Unowned
Alissa Quart Self Unowned
Jason Calacanis Self Unowned
Brian Wong Self Unowned
Kelly May Self Unowned