Black Mirror, Season 3, Episode 1

I really need help with this please and thank you basically for this writing assignment, then, has three stages:

1) Watch tv episode “Nosedive” (Black Mirror, Season 3, Episode 1)

2) Read over this prompt

3) maximum 500 or more addressing the main questions in the

prompt.

Here’s your prompt question:

How does this episode invite us, as viewers, to be “epistemologically ambivalent” about algorithms? 

Thinking about the characters, how does the show stage the dramas of seductive knowledge, especially in terms of algorithmic knowledge? Are there specific examples of the feedback loops that algorithms give rise to that seem particularly significant, epistemologically?

Thinking about your own life, do you recognize anything in this episode from your own experiences and your own social world? Feel absolutely free to draw on reflections from your own life; this kind of concrete “data” can be really useful, when it comes to theoretical reflection like this. 

(For example, is there a specific form of social media that you participate in, one that perhaps echoes some of the depiction in this episode?). 

This prompt is really about what you think the show is trying to do, in terms of epistemologically, but if if feels more useful, philosophically, you can also simply focus on your own interpretation of the episode as a viewer. This assignment can be written in the first-person, if this suits your analysis.