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

[Justine Humphry]

Has anyone mentioned eXistenZ, David Cronenburg's brilliant 1999 film about
a video game designer on the run?  Videodrome is another equally weird and
squeamish pre-digital era film also by Cronenburg.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120907/

Justine

On Wednesday, 13 July 2016, Michael T Zimmer <zimmerm at uwm.edu> wrote:

> Yes! Other pre-digital reflections on information technology & society
> would be Radio Days, and perhaps even The Name of the Rose.
>
> --
> Michael Zimmer, PhD
> Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
> Director, Center for Information Policy Research
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> e: zimmerm at uwm.edu <javascript:;>
> w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>
>
> > On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:39 AM, Joshua Braun <jabraun at journ.umass.edu
> <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;><mailto:
> P.Henman at uq.edu.au <javascript:;>>
> >> | 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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