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

[Tonya Ricklefs]

It is very old school, but I always liked War Games (relationships with AI) with Mathew Broderick.  The Net (isolation, online interaction with others, being "hunted" online)  with Sandra Bullock.  A newer Pixar movie is Big Hero Six (AI relationships).  Other classics could be the Matrix, and I have used The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to teach about love and relationships and what we learn from them.


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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
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'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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