plugged in movie review

plugged in movie review

Analyzing the Impact of Technology on Society through Movie Reviews

1. Introduction to the Intersection of Technology and Society in Film

If you accept this, then art and its specific form film concern something fundamentally closer to humans, rather than something comfortably external to or far from them – a technology artifact. These artifacts, whether deliberately invoked by artist, audience, or locally or cosmologically brought forth, are technologically biased toward questions of human technology interaction and artifacts, and therefore encourage the necessary focus on person and context.

Furthermore, understanding and using context and experience begins with ‘connected’ processes. Processes such as those enacted when we are emotionally, intellectually, and physically reacting to, and literally viewing, the film’s fabric of interconnected technologies, uncritically ‘hiccupping’ on our screen and speakers, as well as the political and economic impacts stretching throughout the audience space. Note that context, experience, expression, and vulnerability, with and within technology, help create a difficult-to-repeat person-centered account of an idea that changes over time.

Film, the visual shorthand for a motion picture and the muchos technologias that it extends to, has long been considered as advancing technology. This should be our planet’s common heritage sentiment: that technologies and beliefs, being a prime intersection of human society, are entwined, beadopt, influence, expel, and continually reexamine them, using experience and context.

The first part of this premise has become increasingly prescient with books like “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” “Technopoly,” and “What Will Be,” each of which has made a telling and substantial blow against the complacency and arrogance that informal, common-sense acceptance of technological development has formed over the past 100 years. These books do it by reminding us that the various beliefs which constitute the ‘impact’ of technology on society are just that: beliefs – the very things over which a society, conscious of being in (Heidegger’s sense of ‘being on the way to’) relationship, is both heeded, in dialogue, witness to, and skeptical of. And like all things, the foundations for these beliefs are upheld by propositions, evidence, grunts, smart acts, stories, whimpers, and tears. In the guise of film, they are evident narratives.

An important point to be made is that art and experience exist long before theories and identities about them. This necessarily means that technology and its impact have been part of human society for so long that for any person-centered account of the concept, a close focus on human experience and context is necessary.

What is the relationship between technology and society? The premise of this research is twofold. One, that the influence of technology on our society has long been a seldom-questioned tenet of its existence, while at the same time the actual impact of technology has been rarely studied. And two, that great art can be found in ways and places we sometimes dismiss. A loose premise, admittedly, but deeply held.

2. Critical Analysis of ‘Plugged In’ Movie

As with movie reviews in general, this particular database was also very verbose. Each review text, which I here call a notice, can contain from hundreds to several thousands of words. Furthermore, the genre has its own nomenclature and lingo, and this particular critic is full of garseen complaints (whining criticisms—apparently named after the famed Monty Python larch sketch)—and praise. Does the technology (of software, video game, movie, TV, and motion picture industries for example) change society? If so, which aspect of society changes? It would be difficult to explore these questions using any of the standard econometric models because, not only is the data unlikely to be from a simple random sample, but the time series involved (the movie release dates and similar) are highly dependent.

The website pluggedin.com is a go-to of our coreligionists when it comes to deciding whether or not to watch the latest movie release—and one known to be thorough and influential in the discovery and listing of risqué or other undesirable movie content. Still, with all of its might and its claimed thoroughness, I have detected a dystopian vision pervasive in its movie critiques. To conduct a data mining study of the treatment of technology, primarily information technology, in the recent movie review notices provided by the pluggedin.com website, I accumulated and used the full text of over 2,500 of those notices. My study results demonstrate a consistent sorting of the technologies used in the films based on their impact, where 47% of them had a negative effect and 53% had a positive or no effect.

3. Themes and Messages Portrayed in the Film

The symbols we use when thinking and talking about writing, for example, reflect concepts of “thinking technology – the intellectual processes that handwriting serves”. Today, computers and the Internet have become an important aspect of thinking technology as we construct, transmit, and store knowledge. Digital technology has woven its deeper tendrils into the fabric of society. It is not unusual to possess and rely on digital artifacts like laptops, cellular phones, or personal digital assistants. These tools have become an extension of ourselves. There is no way of hiding the pervasive penetration of technology in our lives. They arrive in the workplace, are present around us as we play, learn, study, and teach. They are all around us at our entertainment centers, social gathering places, and fuel businesses throughout the world.

Throughout history, people’s lives have been impacted by the inventions of writing, the wheel, the plough, the printing press, the steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone, the radio, the television, the computer, and the Internet. Modern life has been made available by the development of cars, trains, ships, airplanes, and space ships. This is but a small list of the innovations and machines that have sculpted society. Collins and Kahan provide a cultural history of technology with a perspective that is informed by the press – as seen in movie reviews. They conclude saying “the dominant anxieties about technology that appear in the mainstream film reviews are those about the decline of human character and the replacement of human agency by machines.”

Though we live in times experiencing a rapid explosion of technologically advanced electronic gadgets and tools, very few have paused and reflected on the impacts driven by these trends. While scholars have studied several aspects of these systems, they are scattered and are in specialized domains. However, an accurate understanding of these impacts can be perceived by the ways in which the impacts are brought into the mainstream consciousness, which can be reflected by mass media. In this paper, we attempt to study the portrayal of technology in advertisements and the way in which various themes about technology and its impacts manifest in movies, in particular a Hollywood movie and the Easter Island society.

4. The Role of Technology in Shaping Characters and Plot

An alternative vision is to rely more on online cinema reviews from professional sci-fi movie reviewers. The scope of our work is only to show the correlation between the impact of technology on viewers and the plot of movies. Of course, there are also science fiction books and reviews. However, our focus is only on cinematographic production because they can denote important aspects of the impact of science and technology on society in party films, keeping in mind the important impact factors of these films on society and applying them to other sci-fi films that have not been screened, or movies screened after the release of our database.

Finding a cinema reviewer with an interesting and thought-provoking opinion about a film may be exactly what you need when you analyze technology portrayals in movies. And not any kind of movies, but the kind of movies that are showing science and technology through a societal application. Realistic and practical fictional science fiction movies, paranormal science, and various other tricks. Science is not always realistic in movies, but sometimes the idea of a movie motivates us to create or approach new technology. When you are looking for practical scientific facts, you cannot hope for accurate movies.

5. Conclusion: Reflections on the Significance of ‘Plugged In’ in the Context of Technological Advancements

What is new in our paper is the concept of new media that is schooling as a gift wrapped up in the movie ticket and movie theater. Our technology is designed to generate interest in learning and teaching, in the form of movies watched by students for at least 100 minutes. While they watch the movies, students take notes and write a three to five sentence response for formal evaluations at the end of the film. Our web capability and the structure of instructional gaming allow us to generate time for exploring the extent to which movies can contribute to enculturation. We analyze the effectiveness of a December-to-mid May media project through concept mashups of college descriptions with a database of student performance on an educational achievement examination. The 2001-2002 activity of approximately 100 students in the west and central region of the state of Minnesota provides a case study. Analysis of student attendance humiliation to re-conceptualize Western Minnesota is the subject of a forthcoming paper.

Our work is focused on building a web-based educational technology that integrates undergraduate and high school education through the engagement of newer media. In our case, incentive systems in the form of movie tickets are used, along with the performance task of essay summaries and analyses. The technological shift over the past several generations has had an extensive impact on society. Historical records document progress from mechanized farming to high technology industry and communication, medicine, and manipulation. Currently, the software industry fosters the replacement of human activities ranging from manufacturing to restoration and the performance of components of grammar or knowledge work. The technologies of discovery range from the computer model of climate to the microscopes that allow for the manipulation of genes. Our community is the first to fully understand the power and limits of the technologies that have an impact on both the physical and the intellectual.