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Season 16
201825 episodes
Episodes
E1YouTube, YouTubers and You
2018-09-16 · 50m
YouTube, owned by Google, has become one of the most powerful online media platforms in the world, fast to be replacing the viewership of television with over 30 billion hours watched per month in 2017. Young people flock to the platform in the hopes of fame and fortune, which comes for a select few, but not all, hence the allure to ‘make it.’ YouTube celebrities are now mainstream celebrities. The result is troves competing to live their lives as monetised open-wounds for the corporate platform, constantly pleading for subscribers, attention and engagement, all at the hands of Google, its secret algorithms, and the screen culture of spectacle, pornography, and targeted advertising. On both sides of the screen, the treadmill is all about keeping the ad dollars constantly rolling. YouTube, YouTubers and You offers a glimpse into this new media and advertising world, pondering how this culture may continue to undermine our future media and informational landscape. What sort of people and world is this culture creating and perpetuating?
E2Episode 10
10.02018-09-23 · 50m
Radical in Birmingham
E3Episode 3
2018-09-30 · 50m
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E4Episode 4
2018-10-07 · 50m
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E5Episode 5
2018-10-14 · 50m
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E6Episode 6
2018-10-21 · 50m
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E7Episode 7
2018-10-28 · 50m
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E8Episode 8
2018-11-04 · 50m
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E9Episode 9
2018-11-18 · 50m
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E10Episode 10
2018-11-25 · 50m
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E11Episode 11
2018-12-02 · 50m
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E12Episode 12
2018-12-09 · 50m
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E13Episode 13
2018-12-16 · 50m
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E14Episode 14
2019-01-20 · 50m
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E15Episode 15
2019-01-27 · 50m
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E16Episode 16
2019-02-03 · 50m
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E17Episode 17
2019-02-10 · 50m
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E18Episode 18
2019-02-17 · 50m
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E19Episode 19
2019-02-24 · 50m
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E20Episode 20
2019-03-03 · 50m
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E21Episode 21
2019-03-10 · 50m
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E22Episode 22
2019-03-17 · 50m
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E23Episode 23
2019-03-24 · 50m
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E24Episode 24
2019-03-31 · 50m
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E25Episode 25
2019-04-07 · 50m
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