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SERIOUS AND FUNNY ...
Videos on Media, Internet Freedom & Communications Issues
This list of serious and funny videos about media issues includes videos on mainstream media, internet freedom, 'net neutrality, communications issues, information overload, and more.
See the rightmost column for additional categories of videos related to media issues.
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MEDIA VIDEOS
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YELP (WITH APOLOGIES TO ALLEN GINSBERG’S ‘HOWL’)
Technology can be addictive. Ohhhh.... sooooo.... addictive. In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem, "Howl," Tiffany Shlain's "Yelp" lampoons the cyber-addictions of our generation. Watch funny media connectivity video.
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THE CURE FOR HYPERAWARENESS—MSM
Do you have intelligent opinions on subjects like peak oil, globalization, climate change, or the military-industrial complex? Then you may have Hyperawareness Syndrome. But there is a cure: The Mainstream Media! Watch funny mainstream media video.
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WHAT WE CALL THE NEWS
A funny Flash animation that points both barrels at the brainless head of today's zombied-out news machine. From JibJab.
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SHERRY TURKLE’S TWEET — “GIVE TECHNOLOGY THE BIRD!”
Sherry Turkle says we're investing ourselves so deeply in technological communications that we're forgetting the benefits of interpersonal communication and suffering from techno-overload. Stephen Colbert just wants another free iPhone. Watch funny technology video.
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ALL THE NEWS THAT GIVES THEM FITS — A humorous animated romp through a bunch of stories that corporate media-owning giants GE and Westinghouse thought weren't fit to air on their own news network—because the stories were about them! From Robert Smigel via YouTube.
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PIZZA SURVEILLANCE
Want to see where we're heading with surveillance programs, data mining, and personal-information integration? Watch this clever, half-funny, half-scary video. From the ACLU.
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A SERIES OF TUBES?
A cool graphical/techno remix of former Senator Ted Stevens explaining his "tube theory" of the internet on the floor of the US Senate. It's bozos like this that will be deciding the future of OUR internet. From Wonkette.com via YouTube.
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MEDIA VIDEOS
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ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE
This excellent documentary examines how our media system, controlled by a few global corporations, has the ability to overwhelm all competing voices and turn lies into truth. Watch corporate media video.
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Videos on Financial System, Empire, Elites
Videos and Audio on Transformation, Consciousness, 2012
Videos on All Topics
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Resources for Activism
Free MP3 news download
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On The Media
Calyx Aims to Downsize Big Brother — 04 May 2012 — A new internet service provider called Calyx is being designed to encrypt user's data in such a way that it will be inaccessible to anyone but that user. This means that if the government asks for your browser history or emails, Calyx will be technologically unable to hand them over. Nick Merrill of Calyx discusses the plan.
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NPR
To Read Privacy Policies, Just Take A Month Off Work — 19 Apr 2012 — If you read all the policy agreements you must accept before you use software or use many internet services, exactly how long would it take? How much paper would you use if you printed them out and filed them?
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Uprising
Internet Security Bills and the Erosion of Personal Privacy — 25 Apr 2012 — Trevor Timm or the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses the internet security bills being considered, noting that the main one, CISPA, allows information to be collected and given to the National Security Agency without defining what constitutes a cyber security risk. The EFF has been tracking the erosion of personal privacy as governments and corporations are increasingly able to use various technologies to spy on citizenry worldwide.
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ABOUT MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS, AND INTERNET ISSUES
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BOB RIVERS’ “CHAT ROOM”
A funny but slightly raunchy animation lampooning chat room lies. Watch funny chat room video.
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EVERYTHING’S LAME... EXCEPT TEXTING
These are the voyages of the Starship Lame-o-prise. Its 5-year mission, to seek out cool, non-lame stuff, determining whether lameness applies—which it usually does, man—and to boldly text where no lameness has ever gone. Watch funny texting video.
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THE STORY OF ELECTRONICS
The high-tech revolution's collateral damage includes 25 million tons of e-waste (and counting), plus poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. This good electronic-waste video uses funny/clever graphics to accent its points.
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AMERICA DECIDES NETWORK
A very sharp animation from Mark Fiore satirizing the ridiculosity of the networks' campaign coverage, where "tough questions" are usually about as meaningful as the latest happenings on American Idol—Bread & Circuses Edition. Go there
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