ECS 189 – Black Mirror – Spring 2024

From Black Mirror S1E2: Fifteen Million Merits, the first episode we’ll watch This page last updated 3/30/2025

Announcements

• Our class is done, but you are not. Please don’t make us a Black Mirror world. Create the world you do want.
• Season-7 of Black Mirror was released on 10 Apr 2025.
  As promised last Spring, we’ll meet up soon, online, to catch up and talk about some Season-7 episode(s). A more detailed email and plan will be coming.
• I hope you’re all doing well. I miss our class, and I miss teaching it, and I miss teaching.

General Information

• Syllabus – has some unexpected things – read it
• Schedule – what we did each class meeting
• Canvas – to upload your work

Resources

• Netflix: Black Mirror
• Amazon: Twilight Zone
• Inside Black Mirror (Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones) (2018)
• Black Mirror and Philosophy (David Kyle Johnson, editor) (2019)
• Wikipedia: List of Black Mirror episodes

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