More Media documentaries!

Watch at least the first 15 mins of 'Orwell Rolls in his Grave'.  Full of fun facts about media control etc!
thoughtmaybe    this website has loads of excellent stuff.

Lots of media documentaries here!  such as this one Operation Saddam — America’s Propaganda War

A2 Media Effects and Control - Globalisation - Disneyfication - Net Delusion - Jon Ronson

Here's what we would have looked at in today's lesson if the laptops had worked.

Media Effects

The Globalisation and the Media video

A Reader’s Guide To Disneyfication  How Disney magic and the corporate media shape youth identity 

Architects have accused Istanbul’s City Hall of presiding over the “disneyfication” of a once-vibrant ottoman neighbourhood


Media Control - Internet - Net Delusion

The Valley of the Clueless  read this and follow the links (have pasted a couple below), discussing the US policy towards the internet and China, he mentions a couple of good examples from The Net Delusion and also the attacks (both in cyberspace and in the real world) against Iran allegedly by the US or Israel.

US Internet declaration bugs China      The sabotaging of Iran


Video about 60 years of Radio Free Europe


Jon Ronson: Is net freedom under attack? Introducing a new series about attempts to control the online world