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

[Shefali Virkar]

Hello everybody,

To add a recent release to the list, I would recommended Unfriended (2014)
- wherein a group of online chat room friends find themselves 'haunted' on-
and offline by an unknown person or 'force' that speaks to them by
accessing the chat account of their dead, and presumably murdered friend.

The movie is a great study in Internet addiction and the use (and abuse) of
Skype-based and Facebook-like social media platforms.

More information on the film can be found here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3713166/

Best regards,


Shefali

On 13 July 2016 at 09:01, Lies van Roessel <
l.vanroessel at hans-bredow-institut.de> wrote:

> Has anyone mentioned Strange Days yet? That’s a film from 1995 addressing
> (amongst others) a similar topic as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
>
> Best,
> Lies
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> > Am 13.07.2016 um 09:50 schrieb Steven Malčić <steven.malcic at gmail.com>:
> >
> > The Heart Machine (Zachary Wigon, 2014) - online dating and skype
> intimacy, a lean Brooklyn-based DIY take on Vertigo. Available on Netflix
> in many regions.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
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> >> On Jul 12, 2016, at 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
> >> 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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