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@myfairpoint.net>:
Hackers?
-- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace 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@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@uq.edu.au > P.Henman@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 at UQ. > >> CRICOS Provider Number: 00025B _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list
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