Somebody's Watching: Screentime!

This is the first episode in our new three-part series, Somebody's Watching - and it’s about Screentime. In this episode, we meet people who perform for the screen. But in the economy of attention, both performers and watchers are being surveilled. We meet a streamer who games in front of thousands, we visit a cafe built on viral dessert pastry stuffed with pistachio and wrapped in marshmallow, and we are introduced a cat who has learned to high five for the camera. We also are shown how we can be seduced into loving this surveillance, by a decade of our own data, gift-wrapped and handed back to us. Stories by Hope Kloppenburg, Yuyao Zhao, Megan Nicole Yin and Siena Kinkela. Hosted by Preeshita Shah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.