I spoke at the LSE Literary Festival a few weeks ago about Digital Personhood and Identity. Specifically, I spoke about what makes a person ‘human’ in the digital age:
What are the foundations of our identity in the digital age? As digital devices make and manage more and more decisions about our everyday lives how can we retain our sense of self? The panellists discuss how algorithms and intelligent devices are altering our sense of personhood and the ways in which we see ourselves and others.
This is a topic I’ve been exploring for Analog Lessons from Masters of the Senses for a while, and I got the chance to expand on the work we did on Digital Human’s Engagement episode with videos of smell-o-vision and haptic tech.
I joined an excellent panel of academics and authors, including Sonia Livingstone, Andrew Murray and Luke Dormehl, and likely lowered the tone with my videos of beef tongue and digital lollipops…
You can find out what I argued it means to be a digital person (or, ‘me’) here.
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Hey Aleks, I really enjoyed the podcast of the LSE event you participated in. Do you have links for the media that you showed the audience?
Thanks,
Marc
Hey Marc – here you go: v=teivc8Q-oSA
touch: Joanna Montgomery’s Pillow Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
taste: Digital Lollipop v=9YJ4FTTqWR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
smell: Scentee v=oDQpF3NWoJQ get-man-features-digital-taste -machine-and-scentee/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://mixedrealitylab.org/gad
And finally, more on my Engagement website: http://there-are-five.tumblr.c om
Aleks, sad to see you leaving the Guardian podcast ! It won’t be the same without you.
I just wanted to flag up an app to you given your interest in personhood and identity.
We’ve been doing some work with the people at ANGL, a streaming app, the last month or so and it’s grown a community of largely thirtysomething-fortysomething moms who are sharing quite a lot of insight into their lives. Sure, there’s plenty of the “lipsyncing to Barbie Girl” that goes on from time to time; but it’s also interesting to see how different the users are here compared to Periscope or Meerkat. It’s not the typical tech-marketing people or Viners. It’s woman in middle-America, largely, talking about their lives, being tired, fed up, lonely, etc. It’s more personal in a way.
I meant to mention it when you did the show on livestreaming on the pod.
All the best
thanks Jon! will have a look, Aleks
Hello Alex. The podcast that you present is very interesting, I really enjoyed it. Thank you very much.