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Season 16
2018 · 25 episodes
1. YouTube, 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?
2. Episode 10
2018-09-23 · 50m
Radical in Birmingham
3. Episode 3
2018-09-30 · 50m
4. Episode 4
2018-10-07 · 50m
5. Episode 5
2018-10-14 · 50m
6. Episode 6
2018-10-21 · 50m
7. Episode 7
2018-10-28 · 50m
8. Episode 8
2018-11-04 · 50m
9. Episode 9
2018-11-18 · 50m
10. Episode 10
2018-11-25 · 50m
11. Episode 11
2018-12-02 · 50m
12. Episode 12
2018-12-09 · 50m
13. Episode 13
2018-12-16 · 50m
14. Episode 14
2019-01-20 · 50m
15. Episode 15
2019-01-27 · 50m
16. Episode 16
2019-02-03 · 50m
17. Episode 17
2019-02-10 · 50m
18. Episode 18
2019-02-17 · 50m
19. Episode 19
2019-02-24 · 50m
20. Episode 20
2019-03-03 · 50m
21. Episode 21
2019-03-10 · 50m
22. Episode 22
2019-03-17 · 50m
23. Episode 23
2019-03-24 · 50m
24. Episode 24
2019-03-31 · 50m
25. Episode 25
2019-04-07 · 50m
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