28 min
3. Are You Not Engaged? The Gatekeepers
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- Tecnologia
The tech pioneers were right: all this connectivity and sharing is creating a new age of freedom and democracy. A global consciousness.
Arab Spring, Barack Obama – both fuelled by social media - make the possibilities feel limitless.
But, just as the dream to connect everyone is being realised - at the height of technological optimism - everything starts to fall apart.
Producer: Caitlin Smith
Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore
Mix: Gav Murchie
Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Story Consultant: Kirsty Williams
Executive Producer: Peter McManus + Heather Kane-Darling
Research: Rachael Fulton, Elizabeth Ann Duffy and Juliet Conway
Commissioned by Dan Clarke
Archive: C-NET Jan 2007; The Obama White House Archive, April 2011; C-Span, December 2008; C-Span 1996.
New episodes released on Mondays. If you’re in the UK, listen to the latest episodes of The Gatekeepers, first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3Ui661u
The tech pioneers were right: all this connectivity and sharing is creating a new age of freedom and democracy. A global consciousness.
Arab Spring, Barack Obama – both fuelled by social media - make the possibilities feel limitless.
But, just as the dream to connect everyone is being realised - at the height of technological optimism - everything starts to fall apart.
Producer: Caitlin Smith
Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore
Mix: Gav Murchie
Composer: Jeremy Warmsley
Story Consultant: Kirsty Williams
Executive Producer: Peter McManus + Heather Kane-Darling
Research: Rachael Fulton, Elizabeth Ann Duffy and Juliet Conway
Commissioned by Dan Clarke
Archive: C-NET Jan 2007; The Obama White House Archive, April 2011; C-Span, December 2008; C-Span 1996.
New episodes released on Mondays. If you’re in the UK, listen to the latest episodes of The Gatekeepers, first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3Ui661u
28 min