Reading ""Black Mirror"": Insights into Technology and the Post-Media Condition (Media Studies) - Softcover

German A. Duarte; Justin Michael Battin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3837652327 ISBN 13: 9783837652321

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, 2021

Synopsis

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 contemporary society is facing. 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.

About this title

About the Author

German A. Duarte (Dr.) is a media theorist, film scholar, film editor and currently assistant professor of film and media studies at Freie Universität Bozen. His research interests include the history of media, film history, cognitive cultural economy and philosophy. Justin Michael Battin is Lecturer of Communication at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His research focuses on intersecting strands of Heidegger's philosophy with the everyday uses of mobile media technologies and mobile social media.

Edition details

• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837652327
• ISBN 13: 9783837652321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: German A. Duarte, Justin Michael Battin