How Netflix's Adolescence Sells a Surveillance State

//Watch Amy's Deadend Dreamhouse and more only on Nebula. Use my link https://go.nebula.tv/skipintro to get 40% off—that’s just $36 a year or $3 a month. Scan the QR code or click the link below to start watching now. https://go.nebula.tv/skipintro// 🔹🔹Netflix's Adolescence is a series that has taken the UK by storm. It's been hailed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has made the "groundbreaking series" available for students across the country because of the light it shines on internet misogyny. But Adolescence and the discourse around it has a lot in common with moral panics of the past, amping up fear, proposing increased police funding as a solution, and promoting a national policy of digital abstinence that doesn't actually help young boys or girls. Let's look at what Adolescence has to say about misogyny and the internet, and how they mirror earlier moral panics about knives and about mugging.🔹🔹 🔶🔶Huge thank you again to Peter Squires and to Kate Sim for lending me their expertise!🔶🔶 Peter Squires: https://www.petersquires.net/ Kate Sim: https://www.katejsim.com/ ♦️♦️ Copaganda book club: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/6096288/j... ♦️♦️ 🙏🙏 Support me on Patreon: http://bit.ly/2d46QD6🙏🙏 — Subscribe for more video essays: http://bit.ly/2cxs4Z3 — WATCH COPAGANDA: https://bit.ly/44tHB3W Music by Lee Rosevere Follow me on Social Media: Bsky: @skipintroyt.bsky.social 0:00 - Introduction 7:30 - Part 1: Boy Problems? Who's Got 'em? 29:44 - Part 2: Digital Abstinence 49:50 - Part 3: Cutting Through the Noise (with a knife) —— Copaganda sources: https://tinyurl.com/mt8tpysx —— #adolescencenetflix #adolescence #copaganda