Digital Disconnect

press release: SOCIAL CINEMA explores important contemporary social topics from critical perspectives. Each screening is followed by a discussion of the issues explored in the film.  

All films are free and open to the public. Social Cinema is organized by the Havens Center in collaboration with the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee.

Renowned media scholar Robert McChesney traces how the democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the logic of capitalism and the unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies.