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Backlight · Season 16

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29 episodes · (Complete)

S16E01: Slapend Rijk

Sep 3, 2017 50 min

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.

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S16E02: What makes you click

Sep 10, 2017 50 min

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

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