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Through the Black Mirror: Discourses on gender and technology in popular culture
_Technology’s place in society is increasingly significant and debated. Although the
inclusion of gender in discussions about technology is not novel, striking examples
such as sexism (and racism) in artificial intelligence underscore the urgency
of the debate. Popular sci-fi TV forms an important arena for the meaning-making
on gender and technology for its audiences. Going beyond ‘gender essentialism’
and ‘technological determinism’, this study investigates gender and technology
as represented in Black Mirror. As an anthology series, Black Mirror presents its
audiences recognizable technologies and a diverse cast (in terms of gender and
race). Employing a mixture of narrative and discourse analysis on all episodes
of Black Mirror, how discourses on technology are gendered in Black Mirror is
unravelled. Two dominant discourses – the Spectacle and the New Social Contract
– show that beyond a manifest gender neutrality of technology, on a latent level
patriarchal discourses are dominant in imagined future societies._