Any new documentary suggestions for an undergrad Soc class on New Media & Society? I haven't taught this course in 4 years... and our library fund has been dry for some time... there's a chance I'll be able to secure a couple purchases for this class. Thanks for any ideas. -- Mary E. Virnoche Associate Professor and Chair Department of Sociology Humboldt State University Arcata CA 95521 707-826-4569

I like two related recent Frontline documentaries: Growing Up Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/, and Digital Nation http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/. They both serve as good conversation-starters with undergrads. I've paired Growing Up Online with readings on SNS research. I used Digital Nation this semester at the very beginning of class to start off thinking about various issues related to new media. You can watch them both entirely online, so you can get an idea if they'll work for you. There's also a lot of additional material online. Lori ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:52:46 -0800 (PST) >From: Mary Virnoche <Mary.Virnoche@humboldt.edu> >Subject: [CITASA] Film/documentary Suggestions >To: citasa <citasa@list.citasa.org> > >Any new documentary suggestions for an undergrad Soc class on New Media & Society? I haven't taught this course in 4 years... and our library fund has been dry for some time... there's a chance I'll be able to secure a couple purchases for this class. Thanks for any ideas. > > > >-- >Mary E. Virnoche >Associate Professor and Chair >Department of Sociology >Humboldt State University >Arcata CA 95521 >707-826-4569 > >_______________________________________________ >CITASA mailing list >CITASA@list.citasa.org >http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org

Mary Virnoche wrote: > Any new documentary suggestions for an undergrad Soc class on New Media& Society? I haven't taught this course in 4 years... and our library fund has been dry for some time... there's a chance I'll be able to secure a couple purchases for this class. Thanks for any ideas. Lessig and Free Culture offer good choices, but I still haven't decided which is my favorite (too many offerings): http://www.lessig.org/content/av/ Zittrain's Minds for Sale in good quality is available here: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~fineinst/projects/zittrain.html Googling for wikisym keynote video and wikimania keynote video offers some interesting feeds, too, although often enough - in poor youtube quality. There are some other conferences you and others may be more familiar with which may offer interesting keynotes; in fact creating a list of such resources would be a great idea (once we get some kind of citasa wiki running...). -- Piotr Konieczny "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski