15 TWO Digitally Natural Gender Norms in Black Mirror Angela M. Cirucci One consequence of our growing reliance on digital technology is the ethos ascribed to these tools, branding them as the great truth bearers. Technologies that can track, predict, and even resemble humans are linked with objectivity and truth. Indeed, much of Black Mirror’s success is derived from exploring exaggerated versions of our reliance on, and devotion to, digital media as unbiased lenses through which to view the world. Although never a main storyline or moral within a Black Mirror epi- sode, gendered norms are an important area of study in the current era of “Big Data.” Presenting stereotypical gender roles through powerful tech- nologies is detrimental because they are further reified and “proven” even more “natural” due to the repetitive digital acts that constantly link them to some objective truth. In addition, traditional womanhood has historically been used to warn of technologies’ dark sides. As such, the purpose of this chapter is to investigate gendered perfor- mances included in Black Mirror and to analyze how stereotypical gender norms are potentially naturalized, even within the fictitious worlds creat- ed for each episode. Drawing from Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, I argue that the current view of technological advancements as vehicles for objective realities, paired with gender performances through these spaces, problematizes gender politics. To do so, I consider seven episodes of Black Mirror that contain varying notions of stereotypical femininity. In particular, I note the ways in which stereotypical femininity is used as a