But you speak of bloggers in film. I’ve been looking mostly at their role in print, which seems more congenial in some ways (thinking text to text, and sustained texts). Hmmm:

-Given the role of social media in the 2008 elections, have any suspense films, documentaries, etc. done much with bloggers?

-What about general suspense thrillers? Blogs make a fun story in the odd novel _Execution Channel_, as a disinformation network, so maybe…

-How’s tv handling this?

Can’t you just admit you watched the whole damn thing and wept uncontrollably at the end?

Absolutely, I think the best example of the hacker image with the big gulp was that film with Robert Dinero and Edward Norton “the Score.” The hacker was a loser in his mom’s basement, sweaty and processed food eating maniac. I do love that whole imagery from late 90s early 00s film. And it is even more interesting to me just how much the term hacker has morphed since the early 00s.

Social media plays a big part of Never Back Down (guilty pleasure). One of the characters is always shooting video and posting it online — someone we see in a lot of movies about the Iraq War too. He’s always the most annoying person in the room.