Are kids using social media or is social media using kids?

Generation Like

2014·54m7.0Documentary

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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CAST

Will Lyman

Will Lyman

Narrator (voice)

Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

Self

Fred Durst

Fred Durst

Self (archive footage)

Tyler Oakley

Tyler Oakley

Self

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Bonin Bough

Self

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert

Self (archive footage)

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Charles Duhigg

Self

Oli White

Oli White

Self

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Louise Pentland

Self (archive footage)

Hannah Hart

Hannah Hart

Self (archive footage)

Shane Dawson

Shane Dawson

Self (archive footage)

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Liam Horne

Self

Acacia Brinley

Acacia Brinley

Self (archive footage)

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Oliver Luckett

Self

Steven Fernandez

Steven Fernandez

Self

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Danah Boyd

Self

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Angel Aparicio

Self

Ian Somerhalder

Ian Somerhalder

Self

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Kendra Campbell-Milburn

Self

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Dimitry Ioffe

Self