[Air-L] Recommendations for short literary fiction and films on "digital culture"?

[Thomas Ball]

Amazon's series *Humans* is fun and interesting, with a storyline focused
on "synths" or android bots with the ability to think and feel.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Liana Gross Furini <
lianagrossfurini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Emma,
>
> Although not properly "digital" culture, I always like to indicate the
> movie "The Imitation Game" to the students.
>
> If you are seeking fictional stuff, there is the series "Mr. Robot", which
> addresses the digital culture and also the hacking culture. It's awesome!
>
> Other possibilities are "TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard", a
> documentary based on the trial of the three founders of The Pirate Bay, and
> "Zero Days", a documentary about a malware used against the Iran and
> addresses the influence of cyber attacks on people's lives.
>
> I hope it helps. Good luck!
> Liana.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Thomas Ball <xtc283 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This BBC documentary titled *The Joy of Data* is a pretty good overview of
>> digital culture...
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7BIBtPhk
>>
>>
>> A recent *New York Times Magazine* article titled *AI: The Great
>> Awakening *has
>> a nice, kind of breathless portrait of how digital networks and AI are
>> changing culture...
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html
>>
>>
>> Ted Mooney's book *Easy Travel to Other Planets* contains many digital
>> motifs focused around, e.g., information sickness and overload.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Emma Stamm <stamm at vt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I am putting together a syllabus for an interdisciplinary
>> arts/humanities
>> > course that will include a unit on art and culture of the digital age.
>> I am
>> > currently seeking short literary fiction and films/video clips I can
>> use to
>> > introduce college students (mostly freshmen and sophomores) to "digital
>> > culture" in its various forms and guises.
>> >
>> > I am particularly interested in works published after 1980, although if
>> > anyone can recommend their favorite short stories by Philip K. Dick,
>> > William Gibson, women writers and writers of color, I'd be very
>> > appreciative.
>> >
>> > Thank you so much!
>> >
>> > All the best,
>> > Emma Stamm
>> >
>> > *Emma Stamm, MS*
>> > *PhD Student & Instructor, Department of Religion and Culture*
>> > *Virginia State Polytechnic University*
>> > *www.realyou.me <http://www.realyou.me> | @turing_tests*
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> --
> Liana Furini
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