Backlight: Season 16 (2018)

Episodes

1. 

   Episode 1 · September 16, 2018 · 50m

   YouTube, YouTubers and You

   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 2 · September 23, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 10

   Radical in Birmingham

   10.0
3. 

   Episode 3 · September 30, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 3

4. 

   Episode 4 · October 7, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 4

5. 

   Episode 5 · October 14, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 5

6. 

   Episode 6 · October 21, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 6

7. 

   Episode 7 · October 28, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 7

8. 

   Episode 8 · November 4, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 8

9. 

   Episode 9 · November 18, 2018 · 50m

   Episode 9

10. 

    Episode 10 · November 25, 2018 · 50m

    Episode 10

11. 

    Episode 11 · December 2, 2018 · 50m

    Episode 11

12. 

    Episode 12 · December 9, 2018 · 50m

    Episode 12

13. 

    Episode 13 · December 16, 2018 · 50m

    Episode 13

14. 

    Episode 14 · January 20, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 14

15. 

    Episode 15 · January 27, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 15

16. 

    Episode 16 · February 3, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 16

17. 

    Episode 17 · February 10, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 17

18. 

    Episode 18 · February 17, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 18

19. 

    Episode 19 · February 24, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 19

20. 

    Episode 20 · March 3, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 20

21. 

    Episode 21 · March 10, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 21

22. 

    Episode 22 · March 17, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 22

23. 

    Episode 23 · March 24, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 23

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    Episode 24 · March 31, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 24

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    Episode 25 · April 7, 2019 · 50m

    Episode 25