Abstract

[Hated in the Nation (Black Mirror). A reflection on the desire for justice, between emotional aggregations and rigid algorithmic logic] Since its first season, Netflix's anthology series Black Mirror has been dedicated not only to describing the social impact of the most advanced technologies, but also to developing the idea of the possible future scenarios linked to them, and the possible deviations that could result from their careless use. Among the many gems in the series, the film Hated in the Nation deserves attention. It intertwines the themes of “do-it-yourself” justice by online mobs, cancel culture, and justice entrusted to rigid, algorithmically programmed formulas, also incidentally presenting the metaphor, now sociologically recurrent, of human swarms.