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1) Disconnect
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A couple is drawn into a dangerous situation when their secrets are exposed online. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide in this riveting dramatic thriller about ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (66 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
6) Like me
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A reckless loner sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media. After releasing a video of herself robbing a convenience store, she amasses a huge following. While traveling along the coast, she encounters a drifter, an Internet troll, and a paint-huffing outsider who are all pulled into her circle of chaos, junk food, and drugs.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ron's Gone Wrong is a computer-animated film set in a world where it's the norm to have B-Bots, digitally connected robot companions. Barney is a shy middle-schooler who is the last one in his city to finally get Ron, his B-Bot. Unfortunately, his "Best Friend Out of the Box" becomes a major pain, malfunctioning on a regular basis. Not knowing what else to do, Barney sets out to teach Ron about social cues and what it means to be a human.
8) Spree
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kurt dreams of sitting atop a social media empire, but for now, he drives for the rideshare company Spree. Fortunately, Kurt has come up with the perfect way to go viral: #TheLesson. He's decked out his car with cameras for a nonstop live stream full of killer entertainment, murdering his passengers. In the middle of all this madness, a stand-up comedian with her viral agenda crosses Kurt₂s path and becomes the only hope to put an end to his misguided...
9) Dark Web
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (186 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
There’s a dark side to the internet, and you probably don’t even know it exists. Look behind the positive veneer of social media, communication apps and platforms that have made our lives easier and more connected, and you’ll find criminals using the same apps and platforms to run illicit and dangerous activities. Sextortion syndicates target victims globally through social media. Illegal wildlife trades thrive on social consumer marketplaces....
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Drugs, guns, counterfeit documents and much more are sold on dark web marketplaces that run on anonymous browsers and using cryptocurrency. AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace, transacting over US{dollar}800,000 in a day enabling its founder to live a luxury lifestyle in anonymity, until international law enforcement caught up with him.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
12) The Candyman
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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
Description
With the help of experts in network theory, Host Niall Ferguson untangles important issues including why social media networks polarize us, why some ideas go viral and why truth itself is at a disadvantage.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
16) Sexy Baby
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
By looking at lessons from Cold War history, George Orwell's 1984 and other sources, host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a not-for-profit worldwide web shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (165 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this groundbreaking new series hosted by Niall Ferguson and based on his bestselling book The Square and the Tower, Ferguson visits network theorists, social scientists and data analysts to explore the history of social networks.
19) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Twentieth Century Studios and Locksmith Animation's film is the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally connected device, which is supposed to be his 'Best Friend out of the Box.' Ron's hilarious malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.
20) Ingrid goes West
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the death of her mother, a young girl moves to Los Angeles to befriend a social media star.
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