Digital Disconnect

Overview

In this era of Facebook privacy breaches, "fake news" and filter bubbles, this essential film trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy. Tracing the internet's history as a publicly funded government project in the 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, the film traces how the revolutionary, democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the growing and unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 8, 2018

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Production

Media Education Foundation

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site