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

[sahana udupa]

Extremely helpful thread.

Are there suggestions for movies on digital activism?

Thanks in advance
Sahana

Sahana Udupa, PhD
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute
for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Book: 2015, Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Justine Humphry <justine.humphry at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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