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

[Michael T Zimmer]

Yes! Other pre-digital reflections on information technology & society would be Radio Days, and perhaps even The Name of the Rose.

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Michael Zimmer, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
Director, Center for Information Policy Research
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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> On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:39 AM, Joshua Braun <jabraun at journ.umass.edu> wrote:
> 
> Since your request includes broadcast-era media, I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Network (1976). Such a brilliant satirical and hilarious take on the commercialization of media that also speaks to the current obsession with analytics.
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> On 2016-07-12 22:33, Paul Henman 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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