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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
TMW Media
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
3) Home Page
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This Spike & Mike documentary is a journey told through the stories of those they impacted - people like Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Nick Park and many others.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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 obsession...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
"Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unstable young woman with a checkered past of obsessive behavior. She secretly moves to Los Angeles to befriend Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) -- an Instagram "influencer" with a fabulous artist boyfriend, a camera-ready terrier, and an array of new products and brands to promote to her followers. After Ingrid adopts a Taylor-made identity for herself, her attempts to prove she's BFF material are underway--that...
10) Beast Beast
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (69 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States by winning three key states, a victory engineered by an ultra-conservative faction that quietly mapped its way to power using fake news, lies and psychometrics. This explosive documentary follows the money to the reclusive multi-billionaire Robert Mercer who bought Breitbart News and funded the effort, while inserting Steve Bannon into the presidential campaign as its manager. In the darkness...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 31 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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...
13) Maker
Publisher
Muris Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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**.
14) The Creepy Line
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
They may look like ordinary posts of exotic pets for sale on social media. But they are feeding a growing trade in illegal and endangered animals in Malaysia and beyond. This criminal industry is worth billions and is jeopardising attempts to protect endangered species.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With lessons from the fight against terrorism in Iraq to the rise of an internet-powered surveillance state in China, host Niall Ferguson shows how our democracies are under threat from forces that exploit the social networks we invented.
18) Scattering CJ
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Three years after witnessing the violent suicide of her oldest son CJ, Hallie Twomey was determined to retake ownership of his memory as the charismatic, funny and generous soul she knew. In a moment of desperate inspiration, she put a call out to the world on Facebook: would a handful of sympathetic travelers help fulfill her son's ambition to see all the corners of the Earth by scattering some of his ashes in a place of beauty or special meaning...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company's failure to protect millions of users' data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This documentary investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews...
20) Sexy Baby
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
These days, sex doesn't just sell, it saturates our culture. In the age of runaway social media and "sexting," raunchy rap songs on pop radio and hardcore pornography at the click of a mouse-what's it like to be a woman? A girl? A teenage boy? Their parents? In this feature documentary, the directors follow a trio of characters to reveal the toll all this titillation is taking on America and forces viewers to get comfortable having the uncomfortable...
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