Cyberkoelies
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Cyberkoelies Floris-Jan van Luyn en Edwin Verstegen, VPRO A documentary about the contradictions and tensions of modernisation and globalisation in China. Young people leave the country side and wind up as low wage substitute World of Warcraft players for their more wealthy counterparts in Western countries who have either no time or no lust to earn rewards, ranks and levels themselves. |
| The documentary also shows a compelling image of the contradictions between the country side and the rapidly modernizing urban environmeent, between physical labor in agriculture and digital sweat shops, between generations, site bound traditions and global modernization. | |
saw it yesterday, and it’s also available online now, definitely worth watching!
As an addition: I just posted a review/blogpost about the documentary on my own blog @ http://newmw.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/cyberkoelies-buying-your-world-of-warcraft-character-from-china/
its been recommended to me via IRC, i got this link thrown at me:
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/hollanddoc/afleveringen/31239940/
i know its on your blog, twan, but this way people can access it faster :p
Shame it’s in dutch :/
I think the doc also draws on the parallels of real-life farming and virtual-farming