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

[Kiev Ariza Garcia]

In addition to previous suggestions, I would only add Tron (1982) and Die Hard 4.0 


Kiev Ariza 
Doctoral Researcher 
PhD in Management 
University of York
United Kingdom
kaag501 at york.ac.uk

> On 13 Jul 2016, at 3:33 am, 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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> '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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