
Generation Like
2014-02-18 · 54 min · ★ 7.0
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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- Douglas Rushkoff, Frank Koughan
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- United States of America
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Will LymanNarrator (voice)
Douglas RushkoffSelf
Fred DurstSelf (archive footage)
Tyler OakleySelf
Stephen ColbertSelf (archive footage)
Oli WhiteSelf
Hannah HartSelf (archive footage)
Shane DawsonSelf (archive footage)
Acacia BrinleySelf (archive footage)
Steven FernandezSelf
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