From 20-21 May, I’ll be in Melbourne to open up the State Library of Victoria’s very exciting Digital Society Series with two evenings of public talks:
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Untangling the Web: the pre-order kerfuffle
Thursday May 02, 2013 @ 02:27 PM (UTC)Despite emails from Amazon to the contrary (twice!), I assure you that Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing To You will be released on 4 July this year.
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BBC Radio 4's Digital Human: Series 3
Monday April 29, 2013 @ 06:23 PM (UTC)The third series of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human started on 1 April. This time around, we’re looking outside ourselves, at who we are at the beginning of the 21st century. You can follow all the background research and catch some exclusive interview clips at our official reporter’s notebook on Tumblr.
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Untangling the Web: Pacific Rim book tour!
Monday April 29, 2013 @ 06:15 PM (UTC)Quite a lot has happened since the last time I updated alekskrotoski.com. Most importantly, I have a book coming out. After a brief bit of confusion over Amazon’s ISBN system (blame the technology, people), Untangling the Web: What he Internet is Doing to You is on general release in the UK on 4 July. You can pre-order now!
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[BBC World Service] The Culture of Gaming: this Saturday!
Thursday August 16, 2012 @ 07:15 AM (UTC)This weekend I return to the topic that I cut my journalistic teeth on: computer gaming. After five years actively avoiding the subject all together – having burned out on the networking events that happened in strip clubs and the offensive press releases that landed in my inbox – I’m on a mission to find out whether the computer games culture has evolved in that time into something that celebrates and respects its artform and influence.
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Digital Human Series 1: the background bits
Thursday August 02, 2012 @ 01:30 PM (UTC)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.
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[BBC Radio 4] New series: The Digital Human starts Monday 30 April 2012
Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 08:25 AM (UTC)The Digital Human, a new Radio 4 series about technology and modern life begins next Monday, and I’m very excited to be presenting it. It will take seven broad themes of modern living – including memory, privacy, serendipity (of course) and faith – to understand how advances in technology have changed our lives.
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[RSA] Interviewing Rebecca MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked (Thurs 8 March, 1pm)
Tuesday March 06, 2012 @ 11:04 AM (UTC)UPDATE [5 April 2012] here’s the video of the event:
I’m interviewing author and researcher Rebecca MacKinnon on Thursday at the RSA at 1pm. Rebecca is the author of Consent of the Networked, a public-facing epic tome outlining the political undercurrents of the current crop of web/tech leaders (Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon). Her book is a fascinating and important read, part of a crop of analyses of the contemporary web space that unpicks the implications of our transactions with US corporations. She achieves her aim without an overdose of techno-utopianism or techno-pessimism.
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[Public Talk] Cult of Me Meets Cult of We (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall)
Thursday February 23, 2012 @ 01:41 PM (UTC)I’m speaking at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall next Thursday 1 March as part of the Glasgow Lectures series, organised by Professor Philip Schlesinger. My talk, Cult of Me Meets Cult of We, uncovers the sociocultural assumptions designed into the web technologies we use in everyday life. Here’s a blurb:
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[Wired UK] Your Klout score is meaningless
Thursday February 02, 2012 @ 02:45 PM (UTC)I wrote a comment piece for this month’s Ideas Bank in the UK edition of Wired about trust, reputation and the computer algorithms that try to recreate them in a meaningful way.
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