Backlight – Season 15
Episodes
Slapend Rijk
What influence does the quickly growing ‘sharing economy’-based company AirBnB have on the social structure of a city? AirBnB's motto: Share your house, make new friends and get rich while sleeping. Those who can afford it buy an appartement, hire a cleaner, and permanently rents it out to tourists. No banks or shares offer a beter return. But what does a city end up being if many of it's inhabitants only stay for just a couple of days? This episode paints a portret of the city of Amsterdam in the age of AirBnB, including happy tourists, abusers, perfect hosts, victims and informers.
What makes you click
Warehouses going bankrupt and the immense success of online retailing websites prove it: they way we consume is shifting from offline to online rapidly. But which nifty tool or other clever tactic make us fill up our digital shopping cart to the brim? Or makes us stay on the website as long a possible? Or even vote for a certain candidate
We are the people
Indignant Germans are angry with Angela Merkels' policy on refugees. Who are these people? And what is this sudden uproar from a previously silent majority?
Philistines
Rights for all
The ethical enterprise
Dilemma’s in the journey of an enterprising do-gooder who tries to make an ethical smartphone.