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The Gatekeepers, The Gatekeepers, 3. Are You Not Engaged?

The Gatekeepers

The Gatekeepers

3. Are You Not Engaged?

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February 19, 2024

29 minutes

Available for over a year

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: The Obama White House Archive, April 2011; C-Span, December 2008; C-Span 1996.