During the first series of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human, I tweeted links about contributors or background research that the team did to create the stories of each programme.
Here they are now, compiled in one easy-to-consume blogpost.
The next series of The Digital Human starts Monday 8th October, but before then, keep an eye or an ear peeled for special snippets of content they we produced for series one and some of the things we’re playing with for series two.
This is a Listen Along compilation of content. Subscribe to the podcast for the full experience!
Capture
The One About Memory
- more on charles fernyhough
- i’ve often wondered about the ethical implications of the sensecam
- the edinburgh photography club lives here
- some of Dave White’s research
- some of Mervyn Bishop’s photography
- Paul Evans’ country diary at The Guardian
- That coffee cup
Control
The One About Identity
- so clever, so young: Charlie Is So Cool Like
- speaking da lingo: Volpa’s “social media lessons”
- more clever writing by Andy Zaltzman (and not just about Rick Santorum…)
- I spoke w Sherry Turkle for BBC2’s Virtual Revolution in 2009 re online identity. Rushes!
- follow @aidanjohnmoffat for more visceral and occasionally vicious commentary about modern pop
Conceal
The One About Privacy
- Dr Kieron O’Hara’s publications are here
- Peruse through The Guardian’s digested read of Charles Dickens’ classic Bleak House
- One vision of philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon
- And a little bit about Bentham’s auto icon, in residence at University College, London
- Philosopher Anja Steinbauer’s homepage
- Lane DiNicola is the coordinator of UCL’s MSc in Digital Anthropology
- Christian “Documentally” Payne’s hub of online activity is here (UPDATED: and with more on his experience under the knife here)
- More on the philosophy of the Chaos Computer Club
Conviction
The One About Authenticity
- Daniel Dennett, a horseman of the new atheism.
- The Internet is Jim Gilliam’s Religion
- A few of Akma Adams’ random thoughts
- The New Statesman on Richard Holloway’s resignation as Bishop of Edinburgh
- Ship of Fools, “the magazine of Christian unrest”
- Wikipedia article on the Missionary Church of Kopimism
- Lapsed church Muggletonianism – nothing to do with JK Rowling – explained
- Follow Sr Catherine Wybourne on Twitter and read an interview with Digital Nun on the Untangling the Web blog
- You can visit Second Life’s virtual Mecca too
- The origins of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Crush
The One About Love
- More on what Ewan Morrison thinks about the modern relationship between capitalism and love here
- more from Prof Ben Ze’ev (with some of my other online love research) is at the Untangling the Web blog
- some more really fascinating research by Dr Qazi Rahman
- the XOXOSMS film trailer is lurrrrvely
- The psychologist who introduced the term “limerance” – the experience of being in love – is Dorothy Tennov
- peeping in on love letters between Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning feels like snooping
Crowded
The One About Groupthink
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- what is social psychology anyway?
- more research from Prof Stephen Reicher
- crowd behaviour is contextual: deindividuation research from 1979
- A Human Flesh Search Engine documentary via Danwei
- Conversion Disorder info from NIH
- 1st audio I ever downloaded: Orson Welles & Mercury Theatre’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast
- A tiger escaped from LON Zoo?! Reading the Riots from The Guardian follows how rumours spread via Twitter
- Leeeeeeeroy (the virus): reportage on the mass psychogenic illness “game-changer” from HuffPo
- small world networks (Wikipedia), and why they’re rumour super-spreaders
- the ? at end of Dr Robert Smith?‘s name doesn’t make him easy to find.. he & zombie research here
Chance
The One About Serendipity
- More of Stefann Makri’s serendipity research at UCL
- My obsession with serendipity has become a monster project called The Serendipity Engine
- Mel Woods is the principal investigator of the multi-disciplinary, multi-institution serenA project
- Google’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, on transforming the search engine into a serendipity engine
- Serendipity requires three things, according to this research paper (pdf)
- A few of Eilidh McKay’s serendiptographs
- Blogger Steve Parks took a masterclass with chef Ben Spalding, including seawater-cured mackerel
- Slow Down London – “living life in real time”
- Psychologist Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi on the need for “flow” at TED
- Read Jean Armour Polly’s Surfing the Internet
- Eli Pariser at the RSA, on The Filter Bubble
- Luke Allnut on the imagined analogue past
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