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What the Internet is Doing Part 3 of 3: Our Communities
I’m haunted by the MIS-INFORMATION THAT’S OUT THERE ABOUT WHAT THE INTERNET IS “DOING” TO US. I’ve made it my career as a social psychologist to look closely at the claims made in p...
What the Internet is Doing to Us Part 2 of 3: Sex
I’m haunted by the MIS-INFORMATION THAT’S OUT THERE ABOUT WHAT THE INTERNET IS “DOING” TO US. I’ve made it my career as a social psychologist to look closely at the claims made in p...
What the Internet is Doing to Us Part 1 of 3: Our Selves
I’m haunted by the MIS-INFORMATION THAT’S OUT THERE ABOUT WHAT THE INTERNET IS “DOING” TO US. I’ve made it my career as a social psychologist to look closely at the claims made in pub...
Love machine: how Gen Yers used technology to transform the dating game
Love machine: how Gen Yers used technology to transform the dating game : Here’s more on the latest research about the transformation of modern love, for the GenY Takeover of The Guardian : ...
"The Quantified Self movement searches for universal points and scores and payoffs, but doesn’t..."
“The Quantified Self movement searches for universal points and scores and payoffs, but doesn’t acknowledge the systems behind how those are valued, who chooses them, what they mean, and who ...
McLuhan's Tetrads and "the nature of social media"
McLuhan's Tetrads and "the nature of social media" : Researcher Toby first got in touch when he was starting out his MA in Applied Theology, and he’s settled into a very interesting question ...
kthread: > I figured I would get some weird messages here and there, but what I got was an...
kthread : >>> I figured I would get some weird messages here and there, but >> what I got was an onslaught of people who were, within minutes of >> saying hel...
The people behind the screens are the revolutionaries, the...
The people behind the screens are the revolutionaries, the changemakers, I argue in this week’s Untangling the Web audio advent calendar treat. But not in the way you might think. > People�...
Last week, I posted the audio version of the Untangling the Web...
Last week , I posted the audio version of the Untangling the Web chapter about identity. This week, I look at a far more social side of our personalities: FRIENDSHIP. > In 1998, Robert Kra...
Little Atoms 304 – Aleks Krotoski & Matthew Sweet
Little Atoms 304 – Aleks Krotoski & Matthew Sweet : Neil Denny from London’s Resonance FM got me into a studio last week to record a gloriously extended conversation for the Little Atom...
Hey audiobook fans! Over the next few weeks, you can download...
Hey audiobook fans! Over the next few weeks, you can download exclusive tracks of selections from Untangling the Web , read by yours truly. First up, the chapter about identity : > Sixteen y...
How does Facebook’s timeline shape identity? | The Timekeeper Project
How does Facebook’s timeline shape identity? | The Timekeeper Project : Cathy Haynes is documenting objects throughout the ages that shape our sense of time. A Storm is Blowing originat...
"while Renren and Facebook are two technically similar platforms, the Renren culture is perceived as..."
“while Renren and Facebook are two technically similar platforms, the Renren culture is perceived as more collectivistic than the Facebook culture. Furthermore…. users… perform more benevol...
"The web allows us to see ourselves writ large…and that causes discomfort if it exposes things..."
“The web allows us to see ourselves writ large…and that causes discomfort if it exposes things we’re not happy to see.” - In this interview with me for The Frankfurt Book Fair Blog , ...
OK. Now the end is *really* nigh
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Lies, damn lies... the deal's still on!
We’ve extended the 50% off deal until 7 October! You can buy Untangling the Web for half price at the Guardian bookshop if you checkout using the code UTW07FG. You can also buy the book at...
Last chance to get 50% off Untangling the Web!
Last chance to get 50% off Untangling the Web! : The end of the offer is nigh, my friends… You have UNTIL TOMORROW, 2 SEPTEMBER, TO GET 50% OFF Untangling the Web: What the Internet is D...
Online Dating Statistics
Online Dating Statistics : Online dating is the subject of a special BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour collaboration with BBC Radio 5 Live Men’s Hour that’ll air on Bank Holiday Monday, 26 Augu...
Tweeting out loud: extruding our inner voice into the digi-sphere
I’ve spoken with Charles Fernyhough before. The developmental psychologist was interviewed for the very first episode of the very first series of the BBC Radio 4 programme The Digital Human ....
"Technology can’t fight back so stop picking on it, ok?"
“Technology can’t fight back so stop picking on it, ok?” - A bumper of an interview on The Quietus about Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You by the inimitable Emi...