Through the Black Mirror : Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age /: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy.
• Editors: McSweeney, Terence; Joy, Stuart
• Contents: Introduction: Read that back to yourself and ask if you live in a sane society, Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.- Part I.- 'The National Anthem', Terrorism and Digital Media, Fran Pheasant Kelly.- 'Fifteen Million Merits': Gamification, Spectacle, and Neoliberal Aspiration, Mark R. Johnson.- Enhanced Memory: 'The Entire History of You', Henry Jenkins.- Part II.- Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: 'Be Right Back', Andrew Schopp.- Charlie Brooker's 'White Bear': Ideological State Apparatuses, Perversions of Courtly Love, and Curatorial Violence, Paul Petrovic.- Political apathy, the ex post facto allegory and Waldo's Trumpian moment, Terence McSweeney.- We Have Only Ourselves to Fear: Reflections on AI through the Black Mirror of 'White Christmas', Christine Muller.- Part III.- The Planned Obsolescence of 'Nosedive', Sean Redmond.- Augmented Reality Bites: 'Playtest' and the Unstable Now, Soraya Murray.- Shame, Stigma and Identification in 'Shut Up and Dance', Stuart Joy.- Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in 'San Junipero', Isra Daraiseh and M. Keith Booker.- Deviating The Other: Inspecting the Bounds of Progress in 'Men Against Fire', Ana Dosen.- On Killer Bees and GCHQ: 'Hated in the Nation', James Smith.- Part IV.- Dethroning the King of Space: Toxic White Masculinity and the Revised Adventure Narrative in 'USS Callister', Steffen Hankte.- 'Arkangel': Postscript on Families of Control, George F. McHendry, Jr..- The Sovereignty of Truth: Memory and Morality in 'Crocodile', Jossalyn G. Larson.- Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before: Relationships and Late Capitalism in 'Hang the DJ', Aidan Power.- Killing the Creator in 'Metalhead', Barbara Gurr.- Hope, with Teeth: On 'Black Museum', Gerry Canavan.- Change Your Past, Your Present, Your Future: Interactive Narratives and Trauma in Bandersnatch, Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching; Motion pictures-Great Britain; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Films, cinema; Film, TV & radio; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies; Digital media; Motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030194581
• Related ISBNs: 9783030194574
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.