Life 2.0

Name: Life 2.0
Director: Jason Spingarn-Koff
Released: 2010

Jason Spingarn-Koff 2010

Every day, across all corners of the globe, millions of users log onto Second Life, a virtual online world populated by real-life-like avatars. Life 2.0 follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically consumed by the virtual world of Second Life. They reside in this new reality, where inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars—with digital alter egos that can be sculpted and manipulated on a whim.

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Running Time:

99 min.

Spoken Languages:

English

Directors:

Jason Spingarn-Koff

Producers:

Andrew Lauren, Stephan Paternot

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"Life 2.0 is a disturbing but nonjudgmental study of online addiction and the lure of manufactured identities... Every thread here RAISES A PROVOCATIVE QUESTION about the ethics of online interactivity, and serves to demonstrate the Web's ability to both facilitate and destroy human relationships."

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