Trailer | Tiktok, Boom.
Preview: Season 24 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Gen Z influencers and experts help dissect influential social media platform TikTok.
What does it mean to be a digital native? TikTok, Boom. dissects the platform along myriad cross-sections—algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural—to explore the impact of the history-making app. Balancing a genuine interest with healthy skepticism, delve into the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the platform.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
Trailer | Tiktok, Boom.
Preview: Season 24 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
What does it mean to be a digital native? TikTok, Boom. dissects the platform along myriad cross-sections—algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural—to explore the impact of the history-making app. Balancing a genuine interest with healthy skepticism, delve into the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the platform.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
How to Watch Independent Lens
Independent Lens is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.
Sci-Fi's Take on Real Space Isolation
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Moon, Project Hail Mary and Star Trek's holodeck, explore the psychological challenges of astronaut loneliness found in sci-fi, drawing parallels to real-life ISS experiences and proposing solutions like virtual reality companionship and induced hibernation.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship
Support for PBS provided by: