Jon Ronson's Escape and Control

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Escape & Control is an online documentary series in which internationally acclaimed journalist and filmmaker Jon Ronson (Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare At Goats and The Psychopath Test) turns his attentions to the Internet.

  • 8 minutes 43 seconds
    Tuesday Music Video
    Jon Ronson introduces us to the song 'Tuesday' featuring Patrice Wilson.
    17 May 2012, 1:14 pm
  • 9 minutes 44 seconds
    Finding Omer
    Jon Ronson tracks down Omer Gershon.
    3 May 2012, 3:13 pm
  • 6 minutes 36 seconds
    Tuesday
    Jon Ronson meets Friday's creator Patrice Wilson to make a new song...
    19 April 2012, 11:26 am
  • 10 minutes 38 seconds
    Atos
    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.
    5 April 2012, 1:50 pm
  • 12 minutes 25 seconds
    Jon Vs Jon Part 2
    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.
    21 March 2012, 3:19 pm
  • 2 minutes 52 seconds
    Patrice Wilson Follow-up
    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.
    9 March 2012, 2:01 pm
  • 4 minutes 5 seconds
    Jon Vs Jon
    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.
    23 February 2012, 12:03 pm
  • 5 minutes 24 seconds
    Twitter Bots
    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.
    14 December 2011, 5:23 pm
  • 6 minutes 15 seconds
    Friday
    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.
    3 November 2011, 11:13 am
  • 11 minutes 16 seconds
    Egypt's Arab Spring
    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.
    20 October 2011, 7:18 am
  • 9 minutes 37 seconds
    The Search Continues
    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.
    5 October 2011, 4:33 pm
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