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Could This Be The Most Upworthy Site In The History Of The Internet?
Let's be honest: The Internet's been overrun with inanity, and all of us are eating it up. For example, here's a scientific study we commissioned about what comprises the online world: We can't change all that.Tags: bodies , children/youth , consumption/consumerism , discourse/language , gender , inequality , marketing/brands , media , political economy , sex/sexuality , social construction , violence , feminism, media literacy, representation, self-objectification, sexism, sexual objectification, stereotypes, symbolic annihilation, 06 to 10 mins , 61+ mins Year: 2011 Length: 90:00, 8:52 Access: no online access , Vimeo preview Summary: Jennifer Siebel Newsom directs this documentary, and following in the steps of the Killing Us Softly films, it draws attention to the very problematic ways women and girls are represented in contemporary media. To tell the story, Newsom weaves together a number of interviews from an array of experts and activists, including Erika Falk, Jennifer Pozner, Jean Kilbourne, Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Cory Booker, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem.
Miss Representation - The Sociological Cinema
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Brain Forest | Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
No road, no trail can penetrate this forest. The long and delicate branches of its trees lie everywhere, choking space with their exuberant growth. No sunbeam can fly a path tortuous enough to navigate the narrow spaces between these entangled branches. All the trees of this dark forest grew from 100 billion seeds planted together.
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Rape as Prime Time Comedy - The Sociological Cinema
_ Tags: discourse/language , gender , media , violence , comedy, media literacy, rape culture, symbolic violence, 00 to 05 mins Year: 2012 Length: 1:14 Access: nymag.com Summary: Before watching this remix of the 2012 television season's many rape jokes, take a minute to view an excerpt from the documentary Vietnam: American Holocaust , where American soldiers testify that they raped civilian women during the Vietnam War. "We found one hiding in a bomb shelter," one soldier explains, "She was taken out [and] raped by 6 or 7 people."