In Episode 2 of BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, I am joined by Dr. Chris Gilliard to discuss the first Black Mirror holiday special, first aired in 2014, “White Christmas.” Again, I strongly recommend that you watch (or re-watch) the episode before listening to this podcase episode. Even though Chris and I spend waaayyyy more time talking about the implications of “White Christmas” than the actual episode itself, we still drop some major spoilers, so you don’t find out here what you don’t yet know!

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I first “met” my special guest, Dr. Chris Gilliard, through Twitter and his (very excellent blog), Hypervisible Exchnages.  Chris is a writer, professor and speaker. He is an advocate for critical and equity-focused approaches to tech in education, whose scholarship concentrates on digital privacy, surveillance, and the intersections of race, class, and technology. His ideas have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and Vice Magazine. He is a Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Visiting Research Fellow, a member of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry Scholars Council, and a member of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project community advisory board 

Chris is also, I have recently learned, a helluva good conversationalist! In our discussion of “White Christmas,” we talked about Chris’ work on “digital redlining,” incarceration and e-carceration, the ethics of “blocking,” whether or not Facebook should even exist, and the implications of torturing/coercing digital copies of human consciousnesses. 
You can listen to the whole shebang below:


 

Here at BLACK MIRROR REFLECTIONS, we assume that everyone is already committed to read more, write more, think more, and be more… so here’s a helpful list of links to thinkers, technologies, books, and articles referenced in this episode:

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