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Social Media and Identity Formation in Bo Burnham’s Film, ‘Eighth Grade’
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Social Media and Identity Formation in Bo Burnham’s Film, ‘Eighth Grade’

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 / 7 August 2018

Rather than moralize, critique, or make grandiose statements about "digital natives", writer-director-wunderkind Bo Burnham brilliantly visualizes what it means to live in a world in which social media is omnipresent.

‘Eighth Grade’ and the Act of Disappearing in Plain Sight, Online
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‘Eighth Grade’ and the Act of Disappearing in Plain Sight, Online

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 / 20 July 2018

Bo Burnham's big-hearted, emotional tidal wave of a movie shows how the look-at-me / leave-me-alone contradictions of adolescence, powered by social media, are cranked up to 11.