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• [NPOX10] The Cult of Me: a primer for broadcasters

  Thursday September 16, 2010 @ 12:17 PM (UTC)

  This is the text of my keynote from the NPOX10 Festival, held in September 2010 in Hilversum, Holland

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  Hello and thank you for inviting me to open this exciting two-day event. I am speaking to you as a woman who wears several hats, including the two that I’m going to focus on today: I am a social psychologist with a particular interest in how information, attitudes and behaviours spread around the Web, and I am a broadcaster and journalist with an interest in the intersection between digital – or ‘interactive’ – media and traditional – or ‘passive’ – media. I like to think that the two hats have a special kind of synergy: an under-the-hood understanding of what makes information influential and compelling, combined with an understanding of the broad library of new pipelines you can tell stories with. Because after all – whether you’re involved in drama, current affairs, entertainment, sports or news – what you as broadcasters are is storytellers. And what seems to be clear is that you think you have no idea how to tell stories to the people taking part in the virtual revolution.

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  • cult-of-me
  • identity
  • media
  • npox
  • public-talks
  • storytelling

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• [Wonderlab] Delighted... at Hide & Seek's Wonderlab

  Friday July 16, 2010 @ 11:44 AM (UTC)

  I was invited by Margaret Robertson, Head of Development at the magnificently creative Hide and Seek pervasive play group, to deliver a five minute talk on something that delighted me to the participants of Wonderlab, their three day game design workshop. Not being as familiar with the oeuvre of computer and videogames as I once was, and being all too aware that the eminent people in the room knew just as much about the delightful and playful technologies that currently populate the more interesting corners of the World Wide Web, I chose instead to cram in three offline experiences I’ve recently had that all revel in the glorious and delicious moment of anticipation just before something wonderful and expectedly unexpected happens.

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  • delight
  • design
  • game
  • game design
  • hide and seek
  • media
  • public-talks
  • video
  • wonderlab

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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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  • audio-video
  • bbc
  • clay shirky
  • internet
  • media
  • newsnight
  • online
  • public-appearance
  • video
  • web

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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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  • award
  • bafta
  • bbc
  • bbc2
  • media
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• [Interview] Cory Doctorow on For The Win and what kids know about their digital rights

  Thursday May 27, 2010 @ 11:17 AM (UTC)

  Only a very small fraction of a much longer interview I did with leading digital activist and author Cory Doctorow ended up in last week’s Observer Review. We talked about so many wonderful things, that I thought I’d post the other bits up here.

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  • cory doctorow
  • digital economy act
  • internet
  • interview
  • media
  • my bright idea
  • politics

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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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  • bbc
  • bbc2
  • bbcdigrev
  • media
  • the psychologist
  • virtual revolution

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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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  • bbc
  • bbc2
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  • emmy
  • media
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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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  • radio 4
  • the music group

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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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  • academic
  • bbc
  • bbc2
  • digifest
  • event
  • virtual revolution

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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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  • bbc
  • event
  • house of commons
  • media
  • superpower
  • web

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