Cien años con Fidel
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Por Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Ayer comenzaron oficialmente los homenajes por el centenario del natalicio
de Fidel Castro (1926-2016), que culminarán el 13 de...
Hace 19 horas.
Inbox - Utopian or Dystopian? Jeremy
KnoxINSTRUCTOR • 3 days ago TAGS:
Inbox, dystopia
We loved the
quirkiness of this short film, and the original way it deals with
contemporary social exchanges. How do you think it might suggest utopian or
dystopian ideas about the nature of communication in a mediated world? What
kind of educational debates can we draw associations with here?
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I loved the happy ending of “Inbox”, but it make me
wonder why it`s so difficult to connect with people we met in the traditional
ways? Why are we so defensive to human contact? I think face to face
communication is overloaded with prejudices. The acquired look and image
patterns we learned and interiorize since childhood makes us” tag” people
before even know them. Virtual communication eliminates this prejudice and
lets us perceive other values and charms that we usually don`t dig to find if
we don`t like the package.
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How is technology portrayed in Bendito Machine III? Jeremy
KnoxINSTRUCTOR • 3 days ago TAGS: BenditoMachineIII, technologicaldeterminism
This intricate
and absorbing animation is one of our favourite films in the festival. What
do you think it is saying about our relationships with technology, and how
might this relate to the ideas of technological determinism?
What are the
characteristics of the various technologies portrayed in this film, and how
might they relate to the ways that technology has been depicted in educational
literature?
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CELIA: In Bendito Machine III technology is portrayed as a
god uncritically worshipped by human beings, a periodical god that goes with
the flow and is throwed away as easy as it was initially accepted. A domineering
god that goes from passive, to passive – aggressive, to alienating and
frankly aggressive destructive. Are we this vulnerable? Is there no free will
involved? Or is this dystopian view just the normal panic response facing the
enormous power we’ve invoked?
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