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

[Michael T Zimmer]

I’ve done this in my Information Technology Ethics course, and had good results. 

Others to consider: Gattaca, Minority Report, Eagle Eye, iRobot, Tron, Matrix…

-- 
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 12, 2016, at 9:33 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
> T: +61 7 3365 2765 | E: P.Henman at uq.edu.au<mailto:P.Henman at uq.edu.au> | 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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