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<P><FONT SIZE=2>"The Net" - Sandra Bullock as a serious "net-head" whose identity gets "erased." Some of it is a bit fantastic, but a LOT of it hits home...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Laurie Ralston</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Bunz, Ulla K [<A HREF="mailto:ulla@ukans.edu">mailto:ulla@ukans.edu</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:32 AM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: 'air-l@aoir.org'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: [Air-l] Technology in Hollywood</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Later this semester, I'm planning on doing a "Technology in Hollywood" movie</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>session with my students in "Communication and New Technology." The purpose</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>is to show how popular movies have integrated technology into the everyday</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>lives of the movie characters - technology that maybe we have become</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>accustomed to, but that was brand new (and ultimately cool) only two, five,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>or ten years ago. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am *not* planning on showing a whole movie. Instead, I will show multiple</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>short scenes, followed by in-class discussion. I have collected a few</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>examples (see below), and am looking for more. Can you help? I do not want</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>to include James Bond like movies, or science fiction/special effects type</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>movies. I don't want to show what someone has dreamt up as technology</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>possibly being able to do in some obscure scenario. I want to show "real"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>scenes with everyday technology. Also, the movies don't have to be Hollywood</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>movies, but they should be fairly familiar to US undergraduates, because</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>their understanding will be greater that way.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks for suggestions directly to ulla@ku.edu. I will post a summary to the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>entire list.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>ulla</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Examples:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- "Office Space" - any of the fax machine scenes; the dramatic set-up of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>installing a virus on a computer, which actually only consists of copying a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>file from a floppy disk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- "Pretty Woman" - the very brief scene when Julia Roberts goes shopping in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Beverly Hills and a father and son drive by in a car, holding big fat cell</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>phones, and being very proud of them</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- "Bowfinger" - the scene where Steve Martin is trying to impress someone,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and since he doesn't own a cell phone, he just ripped off a regular phone,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and while he pretends to talk on it, the cord dangles in the air</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- "Topsy Turvey" - the scene where the phone is introduced as a new</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>technology, and people scream into the receivers to hear each other, upon</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>which an elderly gentleman remarks one might as well just open the window</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and scream out of that</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>- "Jumping Jack Flash" - one of the scenes in which Whoopi Goldberg "chats"</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>on her computer (with blue and red underlain lines) with the supposedly lost</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>spy Peter</FONT>
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