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#chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator (2013)

Name: #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-04-30T23:08:39+02:00
Rating: 3.4

Documentary | 74 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 74 minuten

Country: United States / Syria

Directed by: Joe Piscatella

IMDb score: 7,1 (250)

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#chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator plot

From the suburbs of Chicago, 19-year-old student Ala'a Basatneh has been coordinating the revolution that has been taking place in her mother country Syria since March 2011. Armed with every social network imaginable. With twelve hundred Facebook friends and two thousand followers on Twitter, she has built up an enormous network. She posts demonstrations as Facebook events, maps out escape routes via Google Maps and puts recordings of demonstrators online. She also ensures that all kinds of recording gadgets end up with her friends, once ordinary students, who want to overthrow the fear-dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.