Several years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously announced, “Privacy is Dead!”. The internet age, he said, has shifted social norms. We no longer care about protecting our identities. And it doesn’t matter if we do, because it’s too late to do anything about that, right?
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Digital Human series 7 on BBC Radio 4
Tuesday April 14, 2015 @ 09:05 PM (UTC)Hello world! In this series of BBC Radio 4’s Digital Human, we’ve gone a bit ethereal. The six episodes kicked off this week with Secrets – in which we discover whether social media is responsible for exposing a secret of my own past, kept hidden for 25 years.
Secret holders share why and how they have used the internet to disclose their most intimate or well kept secrets – how does a compulsion to confess in a public setting effect those who the secret is about? And can this audition of secrets online naturally lead to revealing them offline?
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Codes that Changed the World on BBC Radio 4
Tuesday April 14, 2015 @ 08:55 PM (UTC)‘Engaging and insightful’: That’s how Miranda Sawyer described BBC Radio 4’s week-long series of 15 minute documentaries, Codes That Changed The World, in The Guardian’s review of the week’s radio. In the series, we talk about FORTRAN, COBOL, Basic, Java and ‘Babel’.
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The Biggest Story In the World
Friday March 13, 2015 @ 01:00 PM (UTC)Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has only a few months left in his post, and for his swan song at the end of what has been an extraordinary time at the helm, he’s decided to tackle The Biggest Story In the World: Climate Change.
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Beef tongue and digital lollipops at the LSE
Monday March 09, 2015 @ 03:31 PM (UTC)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:
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Interview with N of Us
Monday March 09, 2015 @ 03:03 PM (UTC)Brian Kissell interviewed me for an extended episode of his podcast, Methodology for Psychology. In it, I talk about the motivation for starting the new series, why social psychology is an integral part of the BBC series Digital Human and my Desert Island Book, Geek Love.
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The N of Us
Thursday January 22, 2015 @ 04:33 PM (UTC)Announcing The N of Us, a new tiny podcast about Us and Them.
N of Us is a year-long evolving audio project about social psychology: 26 episodes about why we think and do what we do.
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BBC Radio 4's Digital Human: Series 5 starts Monday 7 April
Monday March 31, 2014 @ 10:08 AM (UTC)Our award-winning science programme, The Digital Human returns to BBC Radio 4 next week, on Monday 7th April 2014 at 4:30pm GMT. We’re super excited about the issues we’re covering over the next six weeks – as we have been about the previous 28 episodes! – as we continue to explore what it means to be human in the 21st century.
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[BBC Two] The Culture Show: The Next Billion Users
Wednesday January 08, 2014 @ 02:19 PM (UTC)In February 2012, I reported on the next billion users of the Web for BBC Two’s The Culture Show, and what effect their presence online will have on the web we know today.
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[Digital Human] All of Series 4 now online
Tuesday November 12, 2013 @ 01:04 PM (UTC)The last episode of the fourth series of BBC Radio 4’s Digital Human broadcast on Monday. It was a storming series – twice on Radio 4’s Pick of the Week (Altruism and Value) and once included as one of Radio 4’s best podcasts of 2013 on their upcoming Advent Calendar (Dark). Molto congrats to the production team, Peter McManus, Victoria McArthur and Elizabeth Ann Duffy.
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