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There's No Such Thing as Online?!?

Here's an idea: a PBS show that examines the connections between pop culture, technology, and art.

There's No Such Thing as Online?!?

Season 2013 Episode 13 | 4m 41s

From Facebook to bank accounts, you always have some sort of online presence, whether you're actively engaging in front of a screen or not. Yet this is still a word we use to describe our engagement with the Internet. So we have to ask, is this online/offline distinction even worth making? Because we may need to re-evaluate the very word "ONLINE"...

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