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Center for Law, Internet, and Society of the University of São Paulo will publish ‘Black Mirror’ reviews

News 11.14.2017 by Ana Luiza Araujo

New technologies increasingly transformed how people relate to each other, changing political, cognitive, and sociological dynamics. In addition, they created more sophisticated controlling apparatus that enable new forms of surveillance and manipulation by the State and stakeholders of great economic power.

From episodes of the series Black Mirror, created by Charlie Booker and broadcasted by Channel 4 and Netflix, during this semester the members of the Center for Law, Internet, and Society (NDIS) of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo discussed the relation between episodes portraying a dystopian future and the current debates and conflicts in the field of Internet policies.

With the purpose of sharing these analyses, InternetLab will start a series of posts called Black Mirror: dystopias, realities, and Internet policies. We will post 10 reviews prepared by the current members of NDIS which comment on the series’ episodes. See the topics and the schedule of the reviews:

17.11 – “The National Anthem” Episode (S01 E01)

21.11 – “Hated in the Nation” Episode (S03 E06)

23.11 – “The Entire History of You” Episode (S01 E03)

28.11 – “Nosedive” Episode (S03 E01)

30.11 – “The Waldo Moment” Episode (S02 E03)

05.12 – “Be Right Back” Episode (S02 E01)

07.12 – “White Christmas” Episode (S02 E04)

12.12 – “Shut Up and Dance” Episode (S03 E03)

14.12 – “San Junipero” Episode (S03 E04)

19.12 – “White Bear” Episode (S02 E02)

 

About NDIS

The Center for Law, Internet, and Society (NDIS) is an extension activity of the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo (FDUSP) offered to students since the second semester of 2012 in partnership with InternetLab. Its purpose is to promote reflections about the challenges imposed to the Law by the progress of technology, above all in the field of the Internet. NDIS’ research activities favor the study of public policies and regulation, bringing the areas of fundamental rights and juridical sociology closer. The studied topics vary: in previous semesters, NDIS offered modules on privacy, freedom of expression, deep web, Law and Internet in films, the book “Code v.2.0” by Lawrence Lessig, revenge porn, and gender violence on the Internet. In addition, NDIS also holds events at FDUSP and takes part in public hearings and consultations. It is possible to follow NDIS’ activities through its group, Facebook page, and Wikiversity.

In the module offered this semester, NDIS members took part in meetings held to debate the Black Mirror episodes and mandatory texts selected from bibliographies on Law, Sociology, and Political Sciences (national and international). The distances and proximities between the episodes and the readings were discussed, going through different perspectives and disciplines, as the group was encouraged to think about the impacts of information and communication technologies on the social and political life, and on the regulatory discussions that arise in this context.

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