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Gender and Technology: Kanopy Videos

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Kanopy Videos

Kanopy Videos
On-demand streaming video for over 16,000 films including content from the BBC, PBS, and Critereon Collection. Public performance rights for educational use are included.

These videos are searchable via the Cerritos College Catalog or directly through Cerritos.kanopystreaming.com

(Gender) Kanopy Videos

Kanopy - Women in Gaming

Kanopy - Women in Gaming

Although half of all gamers are women, females are disproportionately subject to harassment and abuse from other gamers, and are massively under-represented in the video game design world. Through interviews with video game developers, journalists, and academics, GTFO examines the female experience in gaming and begins a larger conversation that will shape the future of the video game world.

Kanopy - Misogyny in Media and Culture

Kanopy - Misogyny in Media and Culture

The film tracks the destructive dynamics of misogyny across a broad and disturbing range of media phenomena: from the hyper-sexualization of commercial products aimed at girls, to the explosion of gender violence in video games aimed at boys; from the near-hysterical sexist rants of hip-hop artists and talk radio shock jocks, to the continually harsh, patronizing caricature of feminism found in virtually every area of American pop culture.

Kanopy - Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

Kanopy - Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games

Game Over is the first educational documentary to address the fastest growing segment of the media through engaging questions of gender, race and violence.

Kanopy - Young Women Entering STEM Fields

Kanopy - Young Women Entering STEM Fields

This film follows the intimate stories of seven young women who are breaking barriers and overcoming personal challenges to follow their passion in science, math, computing & engineering (STEM) fields. 

Kanopy - Technology's Impact on Sexual Intimacy

Kanopy - Technology's Impact on Sexual Intimacy

A look at the social media phenomenon known as "sexting" -- the process of sending sexually explicit photos via text messages or on the Internet. 

Kanopy - How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men

Kanopy - How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men

Breaks down a range of contemporary media forms that are saturated with sexism -- movies and music videos that glamorize misogyny; pornography that trades in the brutalization of women; comedy routines that make fun of sexual assault; and a slate of men's magazines and cable TV shows whose sole purpose is to revel in reactionary myths of American manhood. 

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