t four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away.

The biggest fiction in the popular press about the film dubbed “the Facebook movie” is that it is, in fact, about Facebook

Does It Hold Up is a chance to re-experience childhood-favorite books, movies, TV shows, video games, and other cultural phenomenon, decades after release. Have they gotten better like a fine wine, or are we drinking cork?

The Social Network is a compelling, fiery drama about friendship, rivalry, school politics and envy - with more than a passing resemblance to Revenge of the Nerds,

Since its release in 2010, The Social Network has given audiences the opportunity to experience the story behind the discovery of one of the most popular social networking websites of our time: Facebook. The film’s tagline is “you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”

I felt like the movie brings up a clear ethical dilemma. There was a debate about whether or not Mark Zuckerberg stole a portion of his idea from the Winklevoss twins.

This paper tells a history of Facebook from 2004 to 2013. It presents the big picture by focusing on Facebook as it presented itself to a user, that is the available semiotic and interactional elements (e.g., profile, wall, feed, commercials, etc.) as well as the functions and useforms which these elements made possible for a variety of actor types (profile owners, groups, companies, software developers, etc.).

In 2004, a Harvard undergraduate got an idea (yes, that is ambiguous) for a new kind of social network.

It seems that director David Fincher has outdone himself with his newest film, The Social Network, having succeeded in making a movie more relevant to our times than his previous Fight Club and yet as enjoyable and gripping as one of his best films, Se7en

Personal growth takes on a whole new meaning in light of massive global changes never before seen in human history.

Globalization has been the word for many years. We could even say it has been the watermark of this era. In its definition, the word invokes positive associations with access, inclusion, development, equality, growth and integration. But now technology is becoming the central axis, rapidly redefining globalization as we know it.

he Social Network (2010) is about one of the hot cultural topics of the moment, the massive move to computer social networking and the extraordinary rise of its primary platform, Facebook. So even a poorly crafted film would have attracted considerable interest from many quarters.

Film critics always dance with the danger of hyperbole. When your profession consists of seeing hundreds of films each year of wildly varying quality, you can’t throw out platitudes all willy-nilly.

he great irony of the The Social Network, of course, is that its central theme is not connectivity but disconnection. A film about the genesis of a technology designed to bring people closer together features a main character who experiences the painful dissolution of social bonds.