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

[Jojo Karlin]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/105dbElTpqyFqANZj60o_yFVNtWJVWEtzVCmM-UMhk2w/edit?usp=sharing


Here's a slapdash google sheet



On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Thomas Ball <xtc283 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are a few suggestions that may or may not be on target with the
> specifics of the request:
>
> Chaplin's *Modern Times*
> Samuel Fuller's *Park Row*, about tech change in the 19th c newspaper
> industry in NYC
> *The Social Network*, about the founding of Facebook
> *Koyaanisqatsi*, a visual poem about the devastating effect tech growth is
> having on nature and the earth
> George Lucas UCLA student film, *THX1138*, and, of course, *The Star Wars*
> epics
> Herbert and Lynch's *Dune, *which is cyberpunk
> For me, the *Bourne* series is implicitly spot-on with the themes outlined
> in the request, as are the *Bond* films
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:33 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 identity at
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