#chicagoGirl
The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
6.2
8 votes
November 21, 2013
1h 14m
Documentary
Overview
From her childhood bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, an American teenage girl uses social media to run the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs braves snipers and shelling in the streets and the world the human rights atrocities of one of the most brutal dictators. But as the revolution rages on, everyone in the network must decide what is the most effective way to fight a dictator: social media or AK-47s.
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Cast
A
Ala'a Basatneh
Self - #chicagoGirlA
Aous Al-Mubarak
SelfB
Bassel Shehadeh
SelfM
Mazhar 'Omar' Tayara
Self - Citizen JournalistD
David Gorodyansky
Self - Internet Security ExpertS
Sascha Meinrath
Self - Director, Open Technology InstituteZ
Zeynep Tufekci
Self - Berkman Center, Harvard University
Kurt Andersen
Self - Writer, 'The Potester' for Time's Person of the Year 2011
Wael Ghonim
Self - Internet ActivistMore like this
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