Are kids using social media or is social media using kids?
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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.
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Will Lyman | Narrator (voice) | Unowned |
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Douglas Rushkoff | Self | Unowned |
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Fred Durst | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Tyler Oakley | Self | Unowned |
| Bonin Bough | Self | Unowned | |
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Stephen Colbert | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
| Charles Duhigg | Self | Unowned | |
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Oli White | Self | Unowned |
| Louise Pentland | Self (archive footage) | Unowned | |
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Hannah Hart | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Shane Dawson | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
| Liam Horne | Self | Unowned | |
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Acacia Brinley | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
| Oliver Luckett | Self | Unowned | |
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Steven Fernandez | Self | Unowned |
| Danah Boyd | Self | Unowned | |
| Angel Aparicio | Self | Unowned | |
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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 | |
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Seth Godin | Self | Unowned |