Dystopian Realities

Investigating the Perception of and Interaction with Surveillance Practices

  • Jennifer Kiesewetter Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen
  • Robin Schmieder Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen
Keywords: Black Mirror, Foucault, panopticism, participatory surveillance, surveillant assemblage, 1984

Author Biographies

Jennifer Kiesewetter, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen

Jennifer Kiesewetter is a student of English, Politics and Economics, and Didactics at Justus Liebig University Giessen. She works as a research assistant and tutor to Prof. Dr. Eva Burwitz-Melzer in the Department of English Didactics, and as a tutor to Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber in the Department of English Linguistics. Her main areas of research are forms and functions of young adult literature and serial narratives, and their use in the foreign language classroom.

Robin Schmieder, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen

Robin Schmieder is a student of English, Latin, and Didactics at the Justus Liebig University Giessen. He works as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hallet. His main areas of interest are cognitive narratology, with a special interest in narrative disorders and naturalization, representations of power in early imperial Latin literature, and contemporary North American cinema and music.

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