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Reading "Black Mirror" : Insights into Technology and the Post-Media Condition / German A. Duarte, Justin Michael Battin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edition Medienwissenschaft ; bd.75.Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839452325
  • 9783839452325
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.77.B525 B53 2021
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Imagining the Present Age -- Black Mirror -- It's the End of the World as We See It -- Mind Games -- Exhausting Choices -- Qualia Inside the Mirror -- Technology and Place in Science Fiction -- Mediated Subjectivities in Postemotional Society -- Nosedive and the "Like" Dystopia -- The Price of Visibility -- Making a Killing -- Mediated Verminisation -- Technicity and the Utopian Limits of the Body -- The 'Death of Neighbour' Seen in a Black Mirror - (Be Right Back on Solaris) -- Death in San Junipero -- San Junipero -- Hated in the Nation -- Author Biographies
Summary: Very few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues facing contemporary society. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Imagining the Present Age -- Black Mirror -- It's the End of the World as We See It -- Mind Games -- Exhausting Choices -- Qualia Inside the Mirror -- Technology and Place in Science Fiction -- Mediated Subjectivities in Postemotional Society -- Nosedive and the "Like" Dystopia -- The Price of Visibility -- Making a Killing -- Mediated Verminisation -- Technicity and the Utopian Limits of the Body -- The 'Death of Neighbour' Seen in a Black Mirror - (Be Right Back on Solaris) -- Death in San Junipero -- San Junipero -- Hated in the Nation -- Author Biographies

Very few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues facing contemporary society. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jan 2021).

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