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Digital Footprint

Watch Where You Step
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Gr 8 Up—This program offers an accessible, non-didactic overview of the data you leave in the digital world every day simply by using the Internet, credit or debit cards, and mobile phones. Set in a coffee shop, narrated by a pleasant young woman, and featuring frank interviews with teens, the film has four brief segments. "Your Digital Identity: A Permanent Step" shows how everyone leaves traces of their activity in the digital environment that are never erased. When you use a mobile phone, go on Facebook, YouTube, Instant Messenger, or online e-mail programs, or buy something with a credit or debit card, you leave a digital footprint. "Sharing and Scaring: The Dangers of Sexting" discusses sending inappropriate photos over cell phones. The teens offer honest opinions about sexting. "Social Networking: Safe Steps" offers ideas on how to use Facebook safely. It explains how people can see what you post, including potential employers, future landlords, significant others, college admissions offices, identity thieves, and stalkers. "Cleaning Up: Putting Your Best Digital Foot Forward" explains how to find out what information about you is available in the digital environment, how to create a positive and professional digital footprint, and how to smartly manage social networking sites. An important, useful caveat for viewers.—Geri Diorio, Ridgefield Library, CT
In this beautiful, heartrending, yet horrifying film, North Koreans tell their stories of imprisonment, sexual slavery, torture, murder, and escape to China or South Korea during the nearly 50-year regime of Kim Il Sung (1912—94). The interviews are illustrated through the interspersion of dance sequences, archival news footage, and drawings. Particularly interesting are the North Korean propaganda films celebrating Kim Il Sung as God and showing in the face of mass starvation happy workers, elaborate military displays, and the creation of a new flower in 1988 in honor of the 46th birthday of Kim's son and successor, Kim Jong Il. A valuable time line traces 20th-century events in Korea. Bonus features include previously unreleased footage of camp refugees. This mesmerizing film displays excellent production values and is highly recommended for Asia collections.—Kitty Chen Dean, formerly with Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, NY
Reviewed by Kitty Chen Dean , Apr 01, 2011

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