Jon Ronson's Escape and Control

Internationally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and New York Times ...

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Tuesday Music Video
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13:14:12 05/17/12

Jon Ronson introduces us to the song 'Tuesday' featuring Patrice Wilson.

Tuesday Music Video

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Tuesday Music Video

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Jon Ronson introduces us to the song 'Tuesday' featuring Patrice Wilson.

Finding Omer
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15:13:47 05/03/12

Jon Ronson tracks down Omer Gershon.

Finding Omer

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Finding Omer

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Jon Ronson tracks down Omer Gershon.

Tuesday
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11:26:10 04/19/12

Jon Ronson meets Friday's creator Patrice Wilson to make a new song...

Tuesday

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Tuesday

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Jon Ronson meets Friday's creator Patrice Wilson to make a new song...

Atos
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13:50:20 04/05/12

Jon Ronson meets with Frances Kelly, the founder of 'Carer watch', a forum for people who stay at home to look after relatives with disabilities. It got ...

Atos

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Jon Ronson meets with Frances Kelly, the founder of 'Carer watch', a forum for people who stay at home to look after relatives with disabilities. It got taken down indirectly by a company called Atos, employed by the UK government to monitor people claiming incapacity benefits.

Jon Vs Jon Part 2
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15:19:01 03/21/12

Jon Ronson arranges a meeting with the creators of the twitter spambot 'Jon_Ronson'. After some heated discussion and confusion in this interview, he dis...

Jon Vs Jon Part 2

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Jon Vs Jon Part 2

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Jon Ronson arranges a meeting with the creators of the twitter spambot 'Jon_Ronson'. After some heated discussion and confusion in this interview, he discovers the academics' true agenda.

Patrice Wilson Foll...
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14:01:16 03/09/12

Jon Ronson is contacted again by Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. Jon Ronson is treated to a secon...

Patrice Wilson Follow-up

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Patrice Wilson Follow-up

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Jon Ronson is contacted again by Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. Jon Ronson is treated to a second track made by Patrice Wilson just for him. This time Jon Ronson decides to go ahead and shoot a music video with Patrice.

Jon Vs Jon
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12:03:21 02/23/12

Jon Ronson discovers a spambot on twitter with the username 'Jon_Ronson', created by academics from Warwick University. He discusses his frustration with...

Jon Vs Jon

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Jon Vs Jon

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Jon Ronson discovers a spambot on twitter with the username 'Jon_Ronson', created by academics from Warwick University. He discusses his frustration with the fact many of the tweets seem plausible, even though they are about things he would never talk about himself. With the creators of this account refusing to take it down, Jon Ronson decides the only way to resolve this is by meeting them.

Twitter Bots
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17:23:41 12/14/11

Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who with colleagues developed bots for the social media website twitter. The bots generated random t...

Twitter Bots

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Twitter Bots

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Jon Ronson visits web analyst Tim Hwang (Web Ecology Project), who with colleagues developed bots for the social media website twitter. The bots generated random tweets in an experiment to see if they could steer the conversation amongst real human tweeters.

Friday
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11:13:10 11/03/11

Jon Ronson visits a man named Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. The video achieved over 200m views,...

Friday

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Friday

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Jon Ronson visits a man named Patrice Wilson who was responsible for the YouTube music hit 'Friday' by Rebecca Black. The video achieved over 200m views, and he believes he can do it again. Jon Ronson is treated to a track made by Patrice Wilson just for him.

Egypt's Arab Spring
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07:18:30 10/20/11

Jon Ronson looks into the recent Arab Spring revolution that took place in Egypt. Talking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Ar...

Egypt's Arab Spring

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Egypt's Arab Spring

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Jon Ronson looks into the recent Arab Spring revolution that took place in Egypt. Talking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Arab Spring uprising, the government requested for the internet to be shut down.

The Search Continues
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16:33:47 10/05/11

on Ronson continues the search for Omar Gershon. Exploring Tel Aviv, Jon Ronson speaks with members of Latma Studios, the Jerusalem Post and the Israeli government...

The Search Continues

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The Search Continues

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on Ronson continues the search for Omar Gershon. Exploring Tel Aviv, Jon Ronson speaks with members of Latma Studios, the Jerusalem Post and the Israeli government, but it seems Omar Gershon's whereabouts is unknown by these people.

Astroturfing
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10:44:22 09/21/11

Jon Ronson continues the 'Escape and Control' series with a story about Wendell Potter - former Vice President of corporate communications for CIGNA, one...

Astroturfing

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Astroturfing

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Jon Ronson continues the 'Escape and Control' series with a story about Wendell Potter - former Vice President of corporate communications for CIGNA, one of the world's biggest health insurance companies. He spoke of patient Nataline Sarkisyan, who battled with Leukemia back in 2007 whilst CIGNA refused to provide a needed liver transplant.

The Hunt for Omar G...
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15:38:14 09/07/11

Jon Ronson begins the ‘Escape and Control’ series by looking into a man named Marc Pax, who posted a video on YouTube about experiencing homophobia when advocating...

The Hunt for Omar Gershon

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The Hunt for Omar Gershon

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Jon Ronson begins the ‘Escape and Control’ series by looking into a man named Marc Pax, who posted a video on YouTube about experiencing homophobia when advocating gay rights.

Trailer
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11:22:21 08/25/11

In this upcoming documentary series, internationally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and New ...

Trailer

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Trailer

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In this upcoming documentary series, internationally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and New York Times Bestseller The Psychopath Test) turns his attentions to the Internet.

Egypt's Arab Spring

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Egypt's Arab Spring
10/20/11

Jon Ronson looks into the recent Arab Spring revolution that took place in Egypt. Talking to the telecommunications company Vodafone, it appears that during the Arab Spring uprising, the government requested for the internet to be shut down.

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