Representation of Prospective Media in the TV Series "Black Mirror"

Student: Dudnik Ksenia

Supervisor: Ekaterina Lapina-Kratasyuk

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

In this study, the focus is on the investigation of the representation of the mediacommunication’s future in the TV series "The Black Mirror" and determining the correlation of these representations with the principles of the new media theory. Hypothesis is assertion that popularity of the series "Black mirror" depends on apocalyptic character of representation of the future. And the hypothesis was confirmed by a comparison of trends of media in the real world to the screen and due to screen theories of Jacques Lacan, the encoding and decoding theory of Stuart Hall and cultivation theory of George Gerbner.

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