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Introduction
"Black Mirror is a British science fiction television series created by Charlie Brooker. Critically acclaimed, the series stirs much debate around its representation of dystopian futures of Western societies. Despite being all different, they share in common to be technological dystopias. Grim, pessimistic, and technologically led, these representations confront the viewers with alternative societies deriving from the current use of new technologies (Allard- Huver and Escurigan, 2018)."
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Commentary on Nose Dive
- Black Mirror Predicted How Social Media Would DESTROY Humanity'Netflix's Black Mirror has never pulled any punches with its views on how technology would affect us, sending humanity on a downward spiral. Tech and science has been the series' through line, showing that while mankind should be using these tools for better, the conceit, arrogance and need for approval will always make us antagonists. Season 3's "Nosedive" gave us a scary reality check as it showed how social media would destroy us in the years to come..'
- Black Mirror: "Nosedive" and the Dehumanization of the Future'In this article, we explore a Black Mirror episode from the third season of the series titled “Nosedive”. Although it’s futuristic, it’s a reflection of the world we live in today. This isn’t the first time Black Mirror does this. Creator Charlie Brooker said on more than one occasion that his inspiration doesn’t come from fantasy but from present-day phenomena...'
- Black Mirror's horrific people-rating app is now a reality. Sort of'Are you a 4.8 or a 4.2? Rate Me, the horrific but entirely believable popularity app featured in Black Mirror, is now real. Sort of...'
- Black Mirror's third season opens with a vicious take on social media'If Black Mirror could be summed up in one sentence, it'd probably be "Technology is exciting, but people are awful, and they keep finding the worst ways to apply it."
- Reflective Note on the 2019 Marble Project: A Submersion into Black Mirror’s Nosedive – Dredging Surveillance Theories to the Surface'The seemingly inevitable encroachment on our private lives by corporate data miners or
the government (or pick your own bogeyman) is a recurrent topic of Hollywood movies,
the news media, and the press, both popular and scholarly. It is a situation conducive to
hysteria, and although a great distance separates academic theorists from mass-market
authors, most writers who deal with this subject draw on a common core of alarmist
premises and imagery..'
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Context
- Interveillance: A New Culture of Recognition and Mediatization'The everyday uses of networked media technologies, especially social media, have revolutionized the classical model of top-down surveillance. This article sketches the contours of an emerging culture of interveillance where non-hierarchical and non-systematic monitoring practices are part of everyday life..'
- Transforming Society for the Better?'In 2014, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China released a document that called for the construction of a nationwide Social Credit System (SCS) with the goal to encourage sincerity and punish insincerity. The system uses blacklists that citizens land on for various cases of misbehavior, ranging from failing to pay a fine to being caught Jaywalking...'
- What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance?'As a work of architecture, the panopticon allows a watchman to observe occupants without the occupants knowing whether or not they are being watched. As a metaphor, the panopticon was commandeered in the latter half of the 20th century as a way to trace the surveillance tendencies of disciplinarian societies...'
- Governing (through) trustworthiness: technologies of power and subjectification in China's social credit system.'This article examines the technologies of power and subjectification in China's social credit system through a theoretically informed analysis of policy and legal documents as well as the narratives of social credit practitioners, including local officials and representatives of business partners. The ongoing project is a heterogeneous ensemble of discourses, regulations, policies, and any number of programs aiming to govern social and economic activities through problematizing, assessing, and utilizing the "trustworthiness" of individuals, enterprises, organizations, and government agencies...'
- Dangerous, Yet Not So Unique. Characteristics of the Chinese Social Credit System.'Since 2015, the Social Credit System--an initiative of the government of the People's Republic of China which aims to strengthen trustworthiness of the business entities and citizens, promote obedience to law and customs, and develop the Communist Party of China's control over social trends and potential threats to the political stability--has been attracting worldwide attention...'
- The Digital Nexus : Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement'The realm of the “digital” is a variegated, rapidly unfolding, and experientially encompassing phenomenon, directly and indirectly reshaping many aspects of our global, national, and individual lifeworlds...'
- What Western media got wrong about China's social credit system.'It's been presented as a terrifying, dystopian nightmare straight out of science fiction: a system that would allow the Chinese government to surveil all citizens and assign them a score that would impact all aspects of their lives. It sounds frightening. But, as it turns out, much of the Western media narrative on China's social credit system has been outright false...'