Who are the internet warriors? Interview with Kyrre Lien

The documentarist Kyrre Lien has spent three years traveling around the world, from the fjords in Norway to the U.S. desert, to meet some of the most active online commentators (according to research done by Pew Research Centre of Washington). He has visited their houses, met these people with their families; he has given a body and a daily life to people who are mostly known for there extreme thoughts in many conflicting discussions on social networks. Expressing their opinions on difficult topics such as immigration, politics and popularity, men and women from different ages and countries use the web to affirm their own voices. Lien’s project “The Internet Warriors” is articulated through three different devices: video, website and a photographic book.