Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
 Introduction: Read that Back to Yourself and Ask If You Live in a Sane Society  (Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy)....Pages 1-15
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 “The National Anthem”, Terrorism and Digital Media  (Fran Pheasant-Kelly)....Pages 19-31
 “Fifteen Million Merits”: Gamification, Spectacle, and Neoliberal Aspiration  (Mark R. Johnson)....Pages 33-42
 Enhanced Memory: “The Entire History of You”  (Henry Jenkins)....Pages 43-54
Front Matter ....Pages 55-55
 Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”  (Andrew Schopp)....Pages 57-67
 Ideological State Apparatuses, Perversions of Courtly Love, and Curatorial Violence in “White Bear”  (Paul Petrovic)....Pages 69-81
 Political Apathy, the ex post facto Allegory and Waldo’s Trumpian Moment  (Terence McSweeney)....Pages 83-94
 We Have Only Ourselves to Fear: Reflections on AI Through the Black Mirror of “White Christmas”  (Christine Muller)....Pages 95-107
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 The Planned Obsolescence of “Nosedive”  (Sean Redmond)....Pages 111-123
 Augmented Reality Bites: “Playtest” and the Unstable Now  (Soraya Murray)....Pages 125-135
 Shame, Stigma and Identification in “Shut Up and Dance”  (Stuart Joy)....Pages 137-150
 Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in “San Junipero”  (Isra Daraiseh, M. Keith Booker)....Pages 151-163
 Deviating the Other: Inspecting the Boundaries of Progress in “Men Against Fire”  (Ana Došen)....Pages 165-177
 On Killer Bees and GCHQ: “Hated in the Nation”  (James Smith)....Pages 179-190
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 Dethroning the King of Space: Toxic White Masculinity and the Revised Adventure Narrative in “USS Callister”  (Steffen Hantke)....Pages 193-204
 “Arkangel”: Postscript on Families of Control  (George F. McHendry)....Pages 205-216
 The Sovereignty of Truth: Memory and Morality in “Crocodile”  (Jossalyn G. Larson)....Pages 217-229
 Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before: Relationships and Late Capitalism in “Hang the DJ”’  (Aidan Power)....Pages 231-244
 Killing the Creator in “Metalhead”  (Barbara Gurr)....Pages 245-255
 Hope, with Teeth: On “Black Museum”  (Gerry Canavan)....Pages 257-270
 Change Your Past, Your Present, Your Future? Interactive Narratives and Trauma in Bandersnatch (2018)  (Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy)....Pages 271-284
Back Matter ....Pages 285-297