Hidden Histories of the Information Age aired last week on BBC Radio 4. It was a five-part series about five of the objects on display at the new Information Age gallery at the Science Museum (yes, where the Queen sent her first tweet from), and it was an absolutely brilliant way to discover more about the social impact of the infrastructures of the many communication media that we take for granted today. As I say in the script, the objects in the exhibition represent cultural moments from the last 200 years – not just technological innovations.
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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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[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 OverloadMidnight 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. -
[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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[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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[Virtual Revolution] Radio 4's Loose Ends
Saturday January 23, 2010 @ 07:19 PM (UTC)I was interviewed for Radio 4’s culture review programme Loose Ends today. It was an absolute pleasure to meet polymath Clive Anderson, actor Sir Ian McKellan (adding him to my ‘wizard’ set; have already got Christopher Lee…), comedian Richard Herring, Shameless actor David Threlfall and author Katharine Hibbert, and to hear the magic tunes of London blues guitarist Marcus Bonfanti, and piano tapping of the Guillemots’ Fyfe Dangerfield.
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