The Black Mirror series is fictional and highly speculative, and yet it can still seem relevant to real life values and the impacts of technology on society and individual lives. What are your opinions about this series and its meaning for viewers?

Relatability & Reflection:

•  The Black Mirror series is fictional and highly speculative, and yet it can still seem relevant to real life values and the impacts of technology on society and individual lives. What are your opinions about this series and its meaning for viewers?
•  Consider the five episodes of Black Mirror that you watched for this course as representatives of the series:o “Fifteen Million Merits”, “The Entire History of You”, “Nosedive”, “Arkangel”, and “Smithereens”.What your paper should include:

•  Relatability: Explore how the four episodes are relatable to our situation today in the real world.What real world situations do you think about when watching them? Which episodes are the most relatable, and why? Which are the least relatable, and why? Are the most relatable episodes also the most realistic, or is realism not needed for relatability?
•  Reflection: The series title “Black Mirror” seems to invoke the idea of reflection. What does the phrase “Black Mirror” mean to you? Is the “mirror” for you as an individual to use for self-reflection and introspection? And/or, is it for society as a whole to see as an argument for reform? In other words, what do you think the creators of Black Mirror want us to do after watching the episodes?
•  Evidence: Use specific evidence from each episode and contextualize it to interpret meaning. Don’t just summarize the plots. Evidence should include story elements, such as: plot points, character descriptions, and/or dialogue quotations. Evidence could also include storytelling devices, such as: allusion, symbolism, foreshadowing, irony, etc.
•  Cohesive: Analyze the episodes together in an integrated way. Organize your arguments around the issues of relatability and reflection, rather than by the episode plots.Grading Rubric:

 Review the grading rubric on Canvas for more guidance and requirements.Due Date:

 Sunday, October 11, 2020: by 11:59 p.m.Submit:

 PDF or Word document via the link on Canvas. Email is OK as a backup option.

Other Requirements:

•  Formatting: Single-spaced, 12 point font, 1 inch margins. (One page with this formatting is about750 words.)
•  Page count: 2.0-3.5 pages, not including title, headers, or spacing between paragraphs.
•  Citing the episodes: You can informally reference Black Mirror episodes by title. You don’t needtimestamps or formal citations.
•  Other references: You are free to reference sources from outside the course materials if you thinkthey help your arguments, but this is not required. If you do reference outside sources, please cite them. You cause any citation style you like.