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.
Frank Koughan, Douglas Rushkoff
Director
Will Lyman
Narrator (voice)
Douglas Rushkoff
Self
Fred Durst
Self (archive footage)
Tyler Oakley
Self
Bonin Bough
Self
Stephen Colbert
Self (archive footage)
Charles Duhigg
Self
Oli White
Self
Louise Pentland
Self (archive footage)
Hannah Hart
Self (archive footage)
Shane Dawson
Self (archive footage)
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