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

[Rivka Ribak]

Citizenfour
https://vimeo.com/146807890

The internet's own boy
https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz


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Can they look at documentaries too?
In which case I would like to suggest "We Live in Public" by Ondi Timoner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSTwfdFwIY






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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Shefali Virkar <shefali.virkar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
> > Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung
> >
> > Rothenbaumchaussee 36
> > D-20148 Hamburg
> > Tel. +49 (0)40 45 02 17 38
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >> 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)
> > >>
> > >> UQ ALLY  - Supporting the diversity of sexuality and gender 
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