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Digital Dialogues: Communicating in the Internet Age
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Digital Dialogues: Communicating in the Internet Age

2013 · 25 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Family conversation gets rerouted through screens, and this film asks what that does to the people having it. Produced and narrated by Ed Beebout for KRCB, it sits down panels of college students, parents, and their teenage children to talk through cell phones, social media, and digital gaming, letting each generation describe the same household from a different angle. A teenager explains why a text feels safer than a phone call; a parent describes losing a dinner-table conversation to a group chat happening under the table. The interviews stay candid rather than staged, and the film does not pretend the technology is only good or only bad, tracking both the connection it enables across distance and the attention it pulls away from the room you are actually sitting in. It closes on the plainest possible stakes: whether families can find a workable balance before the habits calcify.