This is excites me. A lot:
BBC2’s Virtual Revolution airs on Saturday 30 January at 8:30pm, and can be viewed on iPlayer internationally, for the very first time.
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[Virtual Revolution] Sneak peek at programme 1: The Great Levelling?
Friday January 22, 2010 @ 10:15 PM (UTC)
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[Media] Cognitive surplus, the soma of television and being on Newsnight with Clay Shirky
Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 03:24 PM (UTC)For the next week, you can catch my appearance on last night’s BBC’s current affairs programme Newsnight with author Clay Shirky, debating the social implications of new technology. It was a great discussion that was overwhelmingly positive about the Web and what it offers, but there were a few sticking points where Clay and I disagreed. I’ll expand on the key one here.
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[Media] Virtual Revolution wins a Bafta!
Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 03:19 PM (UTC)I’m extremely late with this one, but suffice to say, Virtual Revolution, the BBC 2 documentary series I worked on in 2009 and 2010 which broadcast in February of this year landed a shiny award for New Media from the British Academy of Film and Television Awards last month. Golly. An Emmy and a Bafta. Wow. WOW.
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[The Psychologist] Media Page interview: the psychological impact of the Internet, plus how to be an academic broadcaster
Thursday April 29, 2010 @ 04:53 PM (UTC)I was interviewed for The Psychologst magazine’s Media Page for their April edition for a column about the psychological impact of the Web, and the best practices for communicating research to the general public. The latter is a hot topic in academic circles; part of the application process for grant money is to describe how your work will be disseminated widely, and engage audiences who reside outside the academic Ivory Tower. And, of course, everyone’s keen to know the best way to use the Web.
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[Virtual Revolution] We won an Emmy!
Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 04:22 PM (UTC)Congratulations to the truly talented multiplatform team of the BBC 2 series The Virtual Revolution who have won the International Emmy for Digital Programme: Non-Fiction. A phenomenal achievement indeed. Don’t believe me? Check out all the behind-the-scenes hard work by the magnificent Dans, Biddle and Gluckman, including the series’ 3D documentary explorer and all of the interview rushes. Awesome work by all the people who contributed. Yay!
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[Media] The Music Group
Wednesday April 21, 2010 @ 03:59 PM (UTC)I was on Radio 4’s The Music Group last Saturday 17 April, and faced off against the powerhouse that is Janet Street Porter. She thought my choice of Pleasant Valley Sunday by The Monkees was a poor choice. Bah! Must we always take ourselves so darn seriously?
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[Event] Digifest: This is Your Brain on Technology
Monday March 22, 2010 @ 03:51 PM (UTC)Tonight is the first night of DigiFest, the series of events that I’m curating for the Science Museum that looks at the real-world effects of digital media. We’re kicking off with a bang; This is your brain on technology has been sold out for two weeks already, and the waiting list is as long as your arm.
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[Event] SuperPower briefing at the House of Commons
Monday March 15, 2010 @ 12:18 PM (UTC)I’ve been invited to participate in a briefing to the House of Commons tomorrow about the BBC’s SuperPower report, of which the World Service radio adaptation of the 4-film BBC2 documentary series The Virtual Revolution is part. I’ll be joining an esteemed panel, including BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, who’ll be discussing the ways politicians are expected to embrace the Web during the forthcoming election, Pooneh Ghoddoosi from BBC Persian TV will draw on her personal experience of observing user-generated content in Iran to discuss how the Web can transform lives, and Peter Barron, Director of Communication of North and Central Europe at Google, who’ll take a wider view at how politicians, corporations and the government have dealt with the Web. I’ll try to throw as many spanners in the works as possible, arguing that the Web isn’t as liberating as everyone suggests. After all, as I said in this Observer piece, the Web is only a reflection of us and we like our silos. I’ll be introducing concepts of cyberbalkanisation, propaganda, and a historical view of how governments have coped with previous technologies.
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[Virtual Revolution] Homo Interneticus radio adaptation on World Service today
Monday March 15, 2010 @ 12:08 PM (UTC)Homo Interneticus, the final episode of the BBC World Service radio adaptation of the BBC2 series The Virtual Revolution aired this morning at 10am. It’s available to listen via podcast in the BBC’s Documentaries strand and on the Monday Documentary website. You can listen to the other programmes too: The Great Levelling, Enemy of the State and The Cost of Free.
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[Virtual Revolution] The Cost of Free on World Service today
Monday March 08, 2010 @ 09:05 AM (UTC)The BBC World Service’s Monday Documentary series Virtual Revolution radio adaptation continues today at 1005 GMT, with The Cost of Free, a look at the exchange we make for free services like Google and Amazon.
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[Virtual Revolution] Enemy of the State on World Service today
Monday March 01, 2010 @ 09:28 AM (UTC)Episode 2 of Virtual Revolution‘s radio adaptation for the World Service airs today at 10:05am GMT as part of the BBC’s World Service Super Power season. This programme outlines the effect of the World Wide Web on global politics, ricochets around the Twitterverse, examines cyberbalkaniszation, prods the new digital propaganda, discusses confirmation biases and both grassroots and organised extremism and introduces the foundations of a new theatre of war.
Big stuff.
And thank heaven’s to Betsy, the programme is available to experience globally.
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