3SocStructure Lesson 11 Social Dilemma

The Social Dilemma

A 2020 documentary called The Social Dilemma (available on Netflix) details the influence of social media.  

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The trailer is here:  

Here is a link to the video on Youtube.

• The documentary was made by dozens of tech executives who have expressed concern about the influence of social media.  
• The documentary is interspersed with a docudrama that shows how social media is in the background shaping the lives of one family.

There is a transcript of the documentary here.

The beginning of the movie raises the question, "What is the problem?"

Jaron Lanier explains that,

it is not just that, "we are the product and that our attention is the product being sold to advertisers.  That's a little too simplistic.  It is the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behavior and perception that is the product.  And that is the product.  That is the only possible product...."