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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Edition Medienwissenschaft ; 75
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Other title: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 --
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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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783839452325
9783110743357
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754186
9783110753967
9783111025100
9783110767315
DOI:10.1515/9783839452325?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Justin Michael Battin, German A. Duarte.