{"id":2137,"date":"2022-06-02T16:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2022-06-02T16:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T16:30:47","slug":"black-mirror-a-love-hate-relationship-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/2022\/06\/02\/black-mirror-a-love-hate-relationship-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Mirror: A Love-Hate Relationship with Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2137\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2137-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2137-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2137-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-headline panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-headline so-widget-sow-headline-default-ea0af4cf39ae-2137\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"sow-headline-container \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"sow-headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tHON 498 \u2013 Dr. Cigdem Usekes\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"decoration\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"decoration-inside\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"sow-sub-headline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tModes of Inquiry: Textual Analysis, Historical, Social and Cultural Analysis, Artistic Creation and Analysis, Scientific and Mathematical Analysis\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-2137-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Course Description:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Writing for <em>The Guardian<\/em> in 2011, Charlie Brooker, the creator of <em>Black Mirror<\/em>, described the premise of his soon-to-be-famous sci-fi drama anthology: \u201cIf technology is a drug\u2013and it does feel like a drug\u2013then what, precisely, are the side-effects? This area\u2013between delight and discomfort\u2013is where <em>Black Mirror<\/em>...is set.\u201d Depicting \u201cthe way we live now\u201d and imagining \u201cthe way we might be living in 10 minutes' time if we're clumsy,\u201d Brooker\u2019s <em>Black Mirror<\/em> brings to life a slew of contemporary concerns ranging from digital cloning to memory recording, from autonomous weaponized robots to the on-going exploitation of black bodies. In this course, we will analyze many of the vivid nightmares <em>Black Mirror<\/em> has conjured up for its audience in relevant scientific, social, historical, and cultural contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing for The Guardian in 2011, Charlie Brooker, the creator of Black Mirror, described the premise of his soon-to-be-famous sci-fi drama anthology: \u201cIf technology is a drug\u2013and it does feel like a drug\u2013then what, precisely, are the side-effects? This area\u2013between &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}