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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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  • cult of me
  • culture show
  • public-talks

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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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  • klout
  • media
  • psychology
  • reputation
  • serendipity engine
  • trust
  • wired

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• [Newsnight] Facebook IPO, what they're really selling and why this is creepy

  Wednesday February 01, 2012 @ 10:25 AM (UTC)

  On last night’s Newsnight, Made.com’s Brent Hoberman and I debated what the real commodities being sold to the public are when (if) Facebook floats on the US stock market this week.

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  • bbc
  • facebook
  • media
  • newsnight
  • privacy
  • relevance and value

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• [Woman's Hour] Communication Overload

  Friday December 30, 2011 @ 11:25 PM (UTC)

  On 30 December, I took part in a discussion about information overload on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

  Here’s the blurb:
  

  
  Communication Overload

  Midnight on New Year’s Eve is the time when the most text messages are likely to ping around the world to our loved ones. And as we’re in the middle of the festive season we’re all contacting family and friends. With the relentless march of new technology it seems we could be reaching critical mass when it comes to communication overload. What is the brave new world of technology doing to our family and work relationships. And what does it hold for us in the future?
  Jenni is joined by Aleks Krotoski; Social psychologist and writer specialising in the Internet and Dr Nicola Millard, Futurologist at BT who predicts trends in society and technology.

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  • bbc
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  • radio 4
  • web
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• [Royal Institution] Hearing Connections' John Matthias

  Monday November 21, 2011 @ 08:29 AM (UTC)

  John Matthias is a musician and composer. And a particle physicist. He’s speaking tonight at the final lecture in the Connections series at the Royal institution, Hearing Connections: The Sonification of Natural Systems, an examination of the processes behind transforming our neuronal connections into music. I asked him the same set of questions I asked the other presenters (see Daniel Jones’ answers), and particularly like John’s reading list.

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• [Royal Institution] Hearing Connections' Daniel Jones

  Friday November 18, 2011 @ 11:40 AM (UTC)

  I’m wildly excited about next Monday’s lecture in the Connections series (the events I’m guest curating at the Royal Institution) – Hearing Connections: The sonification of natural systems. This is the final lecture in the series, and it takes a lateral step in the theme by looking at the physiological connections in our brains and how they can be used as inspiration for artistic expression. Specifically, the lecture is a demonstration of how a group of exceptionally talented musicians and scientists have translated neuronal pathways into sound.

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• [BBC] Serendipity on The Culture Show tonight!

  Saturday November 05, 2011 @ 12:25 PM (UTC)

  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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  • culture show
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  • serendipity
  • serendipity-engine

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• [Tech Weekly] Behind the Tech City Talks

  Monday October 03, 2011 @ 05:45 PM (UTC)

  Tech Weekly producer Scott Cawley and I have been very busy over the last few months developing the Tech Weekly Tech City Talks series, four evenings of debates on Mondays in October at Imperial College London between front benchers and the people at the coalface about the realities that lie behind the UK government’s Tech City initiative.

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  • guardian and observer
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• [Royal Institution] Guest curating "Connections" with James Burke, The Serendipity Engine & Cortical Songs

  Thursday September 15, 2011 @ 10:32 AM (UTC)

  I’m curating a series this November at The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London, and I’ve selected three events that fall under the umbrella, “Connections”: a lecture by science historian James Burke, an experimental classical music performance that takes its inspiration from neuronal patterns, and live demo of a machine that produces serendipity. It’s all very exciting.

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  • james burke
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  • music
  • public-talks
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  • serendipity-engine

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