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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Not all that long ago, CIOs and IT managers were listening to the grumblings of many of their business colleagues who wanted to shut down or ban employee access to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter. However, the tide of opinion may be moderating, as some significant "business benefits" for workplace social networking have shown up on the radar. In this program, Alan Brill, senior managing director for technology...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With the rising phenomenon of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, constant interconnectivity with friends and family is now part of a teens daily life. However as opposed to enriching their lives, is social media just another avenue for teens to become addicted to? One of the biggest problems facing our teens today is the addictive, pervasive effects of social media.
5) Home Page
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1996, and documentary filmmaker Doug Block, fascinated by this new thing called the internet, trains his wry, analytical lens on the burgeoning home page (i.e. blogging) phenomenon. He soon falls under the spell of 21-year old cyber superstar Justin Hall, whose (literally) bare-all online diary spares no details about friends, family, lovers, and, inevitably, Block himself. When Hall goads the filmmaker into keeping his own online diary,...
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This film follows the unlikely but true story of photographer Suzanne Heintz, and an extraordinary act of defiance that catapults her life, and art, into the social media spotlight. She creates a mannequin family and embarks on a global crusade against societal pressure to conform, resulting in a raw, funny and intimate portrait of life through her lens. Part comedy, part drama, part real life – we witness it all.
Publisher
Felix Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE GLASS BEDROOM is a six part series profiling six Australian artists who use Instagram to create bold new works to share with their thousands of followers. The series will take viewers inside the ‘glass bedrooms’ of these Instagram artists, to explore the relationship between authenticity, identity, and social media in their work. The series was commissioned for Art Bites a joint initiative from ABC Television and Screen Australia, with Screen...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Their voices are suppressed, prohibited and censored. But world-famous bloggers Yoani Sanchez, Zeng Jinyan and Farnaz Seifi are unafraid of their dictatorial regimes. These fearless women represent a new, networked generation of modern rebels. In Cuba, China and Iran their blogs shake the foundations of the state information monopoly, putting them at great risk.
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Today’s youth are constantly bombarded with “news” often reduced to edible sound bites. Television and movie stars are modern day Photoshopped gods, propagating unattainable beauty standards to impressionable young minds. Illusion and delusion surround us more than ever before with marketing and advertising operating in a way where anything goes to manipulate the masses. Explore the Millennial phenomenon, how prevalent social and technology...
12) Beast Beast
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In a quiet southern town, popular and charismatic theatre kid Krista finds herself increasingly drawn to Nito, the new student in her high school who catches her attention with his impressive skating videos. The two share an easy rapport and quickly grow close. Unbeknownst to her, their lives and that of her gun-loving neighbor, Adam, will soon become intertwined—until they reach a breaking point. Three interwoven stories of youth navigating identity,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Social media tools are being used across all media sources including traditional news outlets and online-based resources. This program focuses on the variety of ways social media is essential to storytelling and news distribution. Each chapter highlights an element of social media used by top journalists who rely on these communication channels to both research stories and broaden their audience. Its designed to help students and educators understand...
14) Maker
Publisher
Muris Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the producers of the internationally acclaimed *Design & Thinking*, MAKER is looks into the current "Maker" movement in America – a new wave of Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-Together culture fueled by passion and powered by the advent of new technologies. Official Selection at the **Copenhagen International Documentary Festival** and the **San Diego Design Film Festival**.
15) The Creepy Line
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This feature documentary reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook, and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle and powerful manner in which they do it. Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, the film examines what is at risk when these tech titans have free reign to utilize the public’s most private and personal data.
Author
Publisher
Montezuma Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"We are bombarded by extremes. Life is presented to us in our social media feeds, by our politicians, and sometimes by our opinionated friends and relatives as if every issue were simple and only open to two opposing sides. In our real experiences, though, we often find ourselves between things -- between opinions, between places where we spend our time, between identities, between moods, between life stages, between networks of people, and even between...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar after a chance encounter with Connor just before his suicide leads others to believe Evan was his only friend.
Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy-- just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams-- Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes...
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sextortion was invented by one woman in the Philippines, Maria Caparas. She turned the idea of making friends online and recording explicit video chats into a profitable blackmail and extortion scam that could not exist without social media. She now runs a mini empire seemingly beyond the reach of authorities, that has led to many suicides.
19) The Candyman
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It was one of 640 million closed groups on Facebook. Hiding behind the anonymity, the creator of child pornography group Loli Candy and its 7,000 members hid their activities on Facebook and Whatsapp – the dissemination of horrifying images of abuse. While they were eventually bought to justice many more thrive.
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