Social Scoring als Praxis der Überwachung

Eine Analyse der "Black Mirror"-Folge "Nosedive"

Abstract

The Social Credit System, which is currently being tested in China, is vie­wed very critically by some sides, although the principle of scoring, i.e. the assign­ment of a certain point value to a person, has spread in many other industrial coun­tries long since. Digitalisation and Big Data technologies accelerate and intensify these developments even further and thus favour the monitoring and behaviour control of people. This principle of scoring and surveillance is taken up in numerous fictional narratives as a dystopic scenario, e.g. by the Netflix series Black Mirror. The episode Nosedive deals with these issues of surveillance and Social Credit Systems. In addi­tion to a film analytical examination of Nosedive, this essay also deals with a compa­rison of the socio-critical representation of scoring within the episode and the real existing system in China.