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

[Alex Leavitt]

Not a movie but good length anyway: Black Mirror episodes!

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Alex Leavitt
(Sent from phone.)
On Jul 12, 2016 7:33 PM, "Paul Henman" <p.henman at uq.edu.au> 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
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> W: www.digitalsocialpolicy.com<http://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<
> https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:354448>', Policy and
> Society(2015, with A. Gable)
> 'Networks of Communities and Communities of Networks in Online Government<
> http://www.ejeg.com/issue/download.html?idArticle=347>' 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)
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