ECS 189 – Black Mirror – Spring 2024

From Black Mirror S1E2: Fifteen Million Merits, the first episode we’ll watch This page last updated 6/14/2024 at 10pm

Announcements

• Done. Finished. What do we do now?
  Don’t know.
  But please don’t make us a Black Mirror world.
  Imagine the world you do want to make.
• I miss teaching the class.
  Or co-teaching it, I suppose, with 39 students.
  I’ll email at some point, when I have something to say.

General Information

• Schedule – what we did each class meeting
• Syllabus – has some unexpected things – read it
• Canvas – to upload your work
• Gradescope – to “return” quizzes – almost unused

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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