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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[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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[Virtual Revolution] Testing the Dunbar Number thesis on a sample of me
Friday February 19, 2010 @ 09:25 AM (UTC)When we were filming for Programme 4 of Virtual Revolution, director Molly Milton and I went through the approximately 5,000 followers I have on Twitter to test (admittedly, only with a sample of me) Professor Robin Dunbar‘s oft-cited Dunbar Number theory. Dunbar proposed that the ’ideal’ number of people in a human community is just under 150. This, he has argued, is the maximum number of people with whom individuals can maintain functional and stable social relationships. The theory is based upon his work with primates, extrapolating the specific number from the size of the animals’ neocortices to ours. More information on this theory is here.
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[Virtual Revolution] Homo Interneticus?
Friday February 19, 2010 @ 08:42 AM (UTC)The last programme in The Virtual Revolution series, Homo Interneticus, broadcasts this Saturday night, 20 February 2010, at 8:15pm.
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[Virtual Revolution] The Cost of Free
Friday February 12, 2010 @ 11:42 AM (UTC)Tomorrow night’s episode of The Virtual Revolution, The Cost of Free, airs on BBC2 at 9:15pm. The programme looks at the dark corporate underbelly of the Web, and how it’s transforming our notions of privacy and culture in the 21st century. It’s also the one that excites me the most; I am a dystopian from way back, and I’m both thrilled and terrified to see how we have been complicit in our own 1984. What does Google have on us? How is Amazon’s recommendation system contradicting the most powerful opportunity for new inforamtion that the web offers – serendipity – and manipulating us into homogenous proles for its own benefit?
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[Guardian] The challenges of filming The Virtual Revolution
Monday February 08, 2010 @ 08:49 AM (UTC)There was a moment on location last year while filming the BBC2 documentary series The Virtual Revolution when I realised we were actually creating two projects. I was uploading a photo I had taken on the shoot to my Flickr site, or dispatching another update to my Twitter followers, when the director of photography asked: “Why?”
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[Virtual Revolution] Enemy of the State?
Friday February 05, 2010 @ 04:24 PM (UTC)The second episode of the Virtual Revolution series broadcasts tomorrow night at 20:15pm on BBC2. The programme, Enemy of the State?, looks closely at how individuals are using the powerful Web tools against governments and in support of them, how governments are (successfully and unsuccessfully) using the Web to control individuals, and the many groups who are using the agnostic Web to create their own politic – from the good to the downright evil.
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[Virtual Revolution] The two Virtual Revolution audiences
Monday February 01, 2010 @ 10:02 AM (UTC)The Virtual Revolution was a collaborative process, and many people from around the world contributed to its development. Big props to the many people from around the Web who helped us to create it.
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