virtual revolution

• iWonder: Who made the web so hard to control?

  Thursday October 15, 2015 @ 09:17 PM (UTC)

  The BBC has released new content for the iWonder project based on the award-winning flagship BBC 2 series The Virtual Revolution. As the presenter, I had the opportunity to write the provocation around the video. Here’s a taster:

  We wouldn’t have the same freedom of access if Tim Berners-Lee hadn’t released the web to the world for free. We wouldn’t have the same freedom of expression if Vint Cerf and Bob Khan hadn’t created an unbreakable network. We wouldn’t have had the same freedom of thought if the people who populated the early web hadn’t instilled their culture into the fabric of the technology. Their decisions were made within the economic, political and social climates of their time, and they have had a profound and lasting impact on the most important communication technology of our time.

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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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• [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] Homo Interneticus radio adaptation on World Service today

  Monday March 15, 2010 @ 12:08 PM (UTC)

  Homo Interneticus, the final episode of the BBC World Service radio adaptation of the BBC2 series The Virtual Revolution aired this morning at 10am. It’s available to listen via podcast in the BBC’s Documentaries strand and on the Monday Documentary website. You can listen to the other programmes too: The Great Levelling, Enemy of the State and The Cost of Free.

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• [Virtual Revolution] The Cost of Free on World Service today

  Monday March 08, 2010 @ 09:05 AM (UTC)

  The BBC World Service’s Monday Documentary series Virtual Revolution radio adaptation continues today at 1005 GMT, with The Cost of Free, a look at the exchange we make for free services like Google and Amazon.

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• [Virtual Revolution] Enemy of the State on World Service today

  Monday March 01, 2010 @ 09:28 AM (UTC)

  Episode 2 of Virtual Revolution‘s radio adaptation for the World Service airs today at 10:05am GMT as part of the BBC’s World Service Super Power season. This programme outlines the effect of the World Wide Web on global politics, ricochets around the Twitterverse, examines cyberbalkaniszation, prods the new digital propaganda, discusses confirmation biases and both grassroots and organised extremism and introduces the foundations of a new theatre of war.

  Big stuff.

  And thank heaven’s to Betsy, the programme is available to experience globally.
  

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• [Virtual Revolution] World Service radio adaptation begins today!

  Monday February 22, 2010 @ 08:56 AM (UTC)

  

  The first episode of the radio adaptation of The Virtual Revolution is broadcasting on the World Service this morning at 10am GMT. It’s the first time that people around the world can (legally) access the whole programme, The Great Levelling (although a short version in vision is available with the BBC’s innovative 3D Documentary explorer).

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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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