[Air-L] suggestions for movies on communication technology andsocial change

Wed Jul 13 09:32:29 PDT 2016

In case no one has mentioned it, larger than movie but pretty good on communications, gentrification and dark economies: The Wire. Cell phones play a key role in the plot. 

Cheers,

Dr. Rafael Alarcón Medina 
Profesor-Investigador
Departamento de Estudios Culturales
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Tijuana, BC. México
ralmed at colef.mx

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El mié 13-jul-16, Traci Belanger <tlster at myfairpoint.net> escribió:

 Asunto: Re: [Air-L] suggestions for movies on communication	technology	andsocial change
 A: "Justine Humphry" <justine.humphry at gmail.com>, "Patricia Aufderheide" <pat.aufderheide at gmail.com>
 Cc: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
 Fecha: miércoles, 13 de julio de 2016, 9:24

 There's a fairly new
 television channel called "Viceland" that's
 been 
 showing a documentary about Anonymous
 and had the show Mr. Robot... 

 --
 May all winds at your back
 inspire you, and may you have harmony and 
 peace today. 

 On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 08:09:00 -0400, Patricia
 Aufderheide
   wrote:

        Brian Knappenberger's
 work (someone already mentioned Internet's 
 Own Boy),
 including We Are
 Legion (about Anonymous). 
 Alex Winter's
 Downloaded
 The seven part series Do Not
 Track
 Alex Gibney's Zero Days

 On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:33
 AM, Justine Humphry
 wrote:

 > Has anyone mentioned
 eXistenZ, David Cronenburg's brilliant 1999 film
 about
 > a video game designer on the run?
 Videodrome is another equally weird and
 >
 squeamish pre-digital era film also by Cronenburg. 
 >
 > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/
 >
 > Justine
 >
 > On Wednesday, 13 July
 2016, Michael T Zimmer  wrote:
 >
 > > Yes! Other pre-digital reflections on
 information technology & society
 >
 > would be Radio Days, and perhaps even The Name of the
 Rose. 
 > >
 > >
 --
 > > Michael Zimmer, PhD
 > > Associate Professor, School of
 Information Studies
 > > Director,
 Center for Information Policy Research
 >
 > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
 >
 > e: zimmerm at uwm.edu >
 w: www.michaelzimmer.org
 > >
 > >
 > > > On Jul
 13, 2016, at 3:39 AM, Joshua Braun  > > wrote:
 > > >
 > > >
 Since your request includes broadcast-era media, I'm
 surprised no one
 > > has yet mentioned
 Network (1976). Such a brilliant satirical and
 > hilarious
 > > take
 on the commercialization of media that also speaks to the
 current
 > > obsession with analytics.

 > > >
 > >
 > Josh
 > > >
 > > >
 > > >
 On 2016-07-12 22:33, Paul Henman wrote:
 >
 > >> Dear colleagues
 > >
 >> I am teaching a course on media, culture and
 society, and am
 > > >>
 introducing a new assessment piece - a movie review. 
 > > >> I am going to give students
 a selection of movies to choose from that
 > > >> have as a key element the
 role of communications technologies
 >
 > >> (including social media) on social change,
 social relations and
 > > >>
 identify. 
 > > >> I have already
 identified the following:
 > > >>
 * Her - on operating systems and the self
 > > >> * The Truman Show - on
 reality tv and public/private nexus
 >
 > >> * The Enemy of the State - on surveillance
 technologies
 > > >> * You've
 got mail (maybe) - on email and relationships
 > > >> * Good morning Vietnam
 (maybe) - on radio and community
 >
 building
 > > >> I welcome any
 other suggestions and commendations. They can be old
 > > >> technologies, current or
 predicted new ones (ie sci fi). 
 > >
 >> Paul
 > > >> Paul
 Henman
 > > >> Associate
 Professor of Social Policy and Sociology
 > > >> Head of Sociology
 > > >> Program Director, BSocSci
 > > >> School of Social Science
 > > >> University of Queensland QLD
 4072
 > > >> T: +61 7 3365 2765 |
 E: P.Henman at uq.edu.au 
 > P.Henman at uq.edu.au
 >
 > > >> | W:
 www.digitalsocialpolicy.com
 > >
 >> Recent publications:
 > >
 >> 'Population health performance as primary
 healthcare
 > > >>
 governance<
 > http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/J7ntAVEWvxBzbChMzv4e/full
 > > >'
 > >
 >> Policy and Society (2016, with M. Foster et al)
 > > >> '"Schooling"
 performance
 > > >>
 measurement', Policy
 > > >>
 and Society(2015, with A. Gable)
 > >
 >> 'Networks of Communities and Communities of
 Networks in Online
 > > >>
 Government'
 > > >>
 Electronic Journal of e-Government (2014, with R Ackland, T
 Graham)
 > > >> Government and
 the Internet, in W. Dutton (ed) The Oxford Handbook of
 > > >> Internet
 > > >> Studies<
 > > http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199589074.do#.USJX6Og7i_E>
 > > >> (2014)
 >
 > >> UQ ALLY - Supporting the diversity of
 sexuality and gender identity
 > at
 > > UQ. 
 > >
 >> CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B
 >
 > >>
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 -- 
 Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor and
 Founder
 Center for Media & Social
 Impact, School of Communication
 American
 University
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 American University, Washington, DC
 20016-8017
 McKinley Hall 323
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