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

Wed Jul 13 09:03:02 PDT 2016

Broadcast communication stuff:

   - *Wag the Dog* (1997) - black comedy about fake news (Dustin Hoffman!)
   - *Our Brand is Crisis* (2005) - documentary about importing US
   political consultants to muck up a Bolivian election (also a 2015
   fictionalized version with Sandra Bullock)
   - *Money Monster* (2016, might not be on Netflix yet) - thriller about
   financial reporting and populist frustration (female director: Jodie
   Foster!)
   - *The King of Comedy* (1983) - Robert de Niro dark comedy about
   parasocial relationships
   - *Frequency* (2000) - radio signals allow for time travel communication
   - *Poltergeist* (1982) - the scary is coming from within the TV!!!
   - *Pirate Radio* (2009) - self-explanatory, kinda. British rogue radio
   DJs in the late 1960s
   - *Good Night, and Good Luck* (2005) - about the conflict between
   journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (so good!)
   - *Bamboozled *(2000) - a Spike Lee satire about a modern televised
   minstrel show
   - *Nightcrawler* (2014) - about ethics in journalism? (neo-noir thriller
   about the lengths Jake Gyllenhaal will go for a scoop)

2016-07-13 11:37 GMT-04:00 Traci Belanger <tlster at myfairpoint.net>:

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> today.
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:06:00 +0200, sahana udupa  wrote:
>
>       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
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Justine Humphry
> 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  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 > w: www.michaelzimmer.org
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > > On Jul 13, 2016, at 3:39 AM, Joshua Braun  > > 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  > P.Henman at uq.edu.au >
>> > >> | W: 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', Policy
>> > >> and Society(2015, with A. Gable)
>> > >> 'Networks of Communities and Communities of Networks in Online
>> > >> Government'
>> > >> 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
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