FILM CLUB: The Social Dilemma (2020)
FILM CLUB presents
The Social Dilemma (2020)
94 min
"If you're not the customer then you're the product"
We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of your screen.
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Going to the Store (2011) ‧ Animation/Short ‧ 1 min
Upcoming Attractions ‧ 5 mins
& The Democracy Dilemma ‧ 3 mins
https://letterboxd.com/film/the-social-dilemma/
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0
https://thesocialdilemma.com
Interviewees
Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist, co-founder and CEO of Apture (2007), and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology;[6] co-host of the podcast Your Undivided Attentionwith Aza Raskin
Tim Kendall, former director of monetization at Facebook, former president of Pinterest, and CEO of Moment (a mobile application that tracks screen time)
Jaron Lanier, computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of contemporary classical music; author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (2018)
Roger McNamee, early investor at Facebook, author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe (2019), and cofounder of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners
Aza Raskin, former head of user experience at Mozilla Labs and creative lead for Firefox; co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and founder of Massive Health; inventor of the infinite scroll
Justin Rosenstein, former Facebook engineering manager, former Google product manager, and co-founder of Asana and One Project
Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)
Jeff Seibert, former head of product at Twitter, serial tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of Digits
Anna Lembke, medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist at the New York University Stern School of Business, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012) and coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (2018)
Sandy Parakilas, former platform operations manager at Facebook and former product manager at Uber
Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction (2016)
Randima Fernando, former product manager at Nvidia, former executive director at Mindful Schools, and co-founder and executive director of the Center for Humane Technology
Joe Toscano, former experience design consultant at Google and author of Automating Humanity (2018)
Bailey Richardson, early team member of Instagram and partner at People & Company
Rashida Richardson, assistant professor of law and political science at Northeastern University School of Law and former director of policy research at AI Now Institute
Guillaume Chaslot, former software engineer at Google (YouTube) and founder of AlgoTransparency
Renée DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory and former head of policy at Data for Democracy
Cynthia M. Wong, former senior internet researcher at Human Rights Watch
Alex Roetter, former senior vice president of engineering at Twitter
Lynn Fox, former director of corporate PR and Mac PR at Apple, former executive of corporate communications at Google