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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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HOW WILL THE END OF PRINT JOURNALISM AFFECT US?
Panelists discuss how the decline of the newspaper industry will affect the loons who depend on newspapers for stacking around their ramshackle homes---and others who rely on newsprint for various purposes. Watch funny video about the death of newspapers.
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DECLARATION OF EMAIL SIGNATURES
What if the founding fathers had iPhones, email, and clever little email signatures? And used them to sign a particularly important document in US history. Watch funny declaration of independence video.
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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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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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CounterSpin
Media Coverage of Terror Spin + The Digital Disconnect —
31 May 2013 —
(1) A wrap-up of recent media buffoonery. ~~ (2) Did Barack Obama's recent speech signal a sea change in White House terrorism policy? For most corporate media, the answer is yes. Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights explains why Obama's vague assurances should be discounted against the weight of his stay-the-course actions. ~~ (3) Depending on who you listen to, the internet has either destroyed the traditional media business or has brought us a new era of vibrant, more democratic media. Bob McChesney argues in his new book Digital Disconnect that to understand the internet, you have to understand the perversities of capitalism.
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C-Realm Podcast
Erik Davis on Techno-Society and Honoring the Yuck Response —
22 May 2013—
Erik Davis joins KMO for a conversation about the psycho-spiritual differences between the East and West coasts of the United States. Later, they examine the pressure on humans living in a techno-industrial civilization to adapt themselves from biological time (kairos) to the digital time of the clock and information technology (chronos). Erik explains how both techno-utopian and Luddite belief systems rest upon problematic notions of human nature. Sometimes technology elicits a "yuck response" from us, but just as that visceral reaction can steer us wrong, we discount it at our peril.
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On The Media
"The Deciders" of Internet Free Speech —
31 May 2013 —
There's a small group of men and women at big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter who make decisions everyday about what "offensive speech" is pulled from their sites. The huge scale of those sites gives these "Deciders" enormous influence over the state of free speech on the web. George Washington University Law professor Jeffrey Rosen discusses.
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ABOUT MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS, AND INTERNET ISSUES
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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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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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