Dr. Chris Gilliard joins Dr. J in this episode to discuss his work on "digital redlining," incarceration and e-carceration, the ethics of "blocking," and whether its okay to torture or coerce digital copies of human consciousnesses... all in the context of Black Mirror's first special holiday episode, "White Christmas."

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"15 Million Merits" (Season 1, Episode 2) presents itself as a fairly straightforward story of lost love, of meaningless work, of empty consumerism, and the dangers of reality television. But is there another story hidden in it?

Shannon Musset offers another way of viewing this episode, and asks us to think about what-- and who-- we didn't pay attention to in '15 Million Merits."

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