When filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet Edward Snowden for the first time,..
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The most uncanny aspect of “Citizen Four,” the Laura Poitras film which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary this..
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It’s no secret that The Viral Media Lab is a fan of social change documentaries. We’ve featured posts on feature..
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Jane McGonigal a Game Designer, Inspirational Speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us..
My dear friend Kaity Thomson posted a link on her Facebook wall yesterday evening. The article titled, “Occupy Wall Street activists..
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What makes a video go viral? What creates the impulse for shareware across the interwebs? What stimulates the mirror neurons..
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