Last week I interviewed Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, for The Culture Show on the BBC. Tonight at 6pm, I present the case against technological solutions that purport to produce serendipity.
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[Radio 4] Fry's English Delight: Brevity
Monday July 18, 2011 @ 09:43 AM (UTC)On Fry’s English Delight on Radio 4 today, I describe to comedian Stephen Fry how much can be explained in something that seems impossibly brief. Introducing the Internet meme.
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[Radio 4] Life in a Day review on Front Row
Tuesday June 14, 2011 @ 05:01 PM (UTC)UPDATE: here’s the audio!
This evening at 7:15pm I’m on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row arts review programme, proffering my opinion on Kevin Macdonald’s latest film, Life in a Day. It was executive produced by Ridley Scott, and tells the story of the events from one nondescript day in the human life of the planet.
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[BBC Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: Six Degrees of Separation
Monday June 06, 2011 @ 01:54 PM (UTC)In one of the most terrifying experiences of my professional career, I danced my PhD (not literally, metaphorically, people) for Stephen Fry, Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Simon Singh last Monday night at the recording of Infinite Monkey Cage. I was invited to be one of the panel on the science-comedy radio show, and had the great pleasure of explaining why the subject of my research is a) interesting, b) rational and c) almost like real science (hear that, Prof Cox?).
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of Twitter: here today, gone tomorrow?
Monday March 21, 2011 @ 11:57 AM (UTC)Twitter, the most popular microblogging platform on the Web, is five years old. But can it survive another five? I was invited onto Radio 4’s Today Programme with mydeco’s Brent Hoberman (co-founder of UK dotcom darling lastminute.com) to talk about its future.
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[The Today Programme] 5 Years of YouTube
Monday December 20, 2010 @ 06:52 AM (UTC)YouTube was five years old on Wednesday 14 December. I was interviewed by Evan Davis for The Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 about its cultural impact, and its effects on modern politics.
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[Radio 4] Infinite Monkey Cage: The Modern World (Good or Evil?)
Monday November 22, 2010 @ 09:14 PM (UTC)I managed to achieve my monthly belly laff quota in one evening – the night I recorded The Infinite Monkey Cage for BBC Radio 4, a science geek comedy panel programme hosted by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. The other panelists were chemist Tony Ryan and the hilarious Paul Foot.
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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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