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[PhD] All the References 25 Jul 2013 | 02:30 pm
Several people have asked for the list of references I used in my PhD thesis, Social Influence in Second Life: Social Network and Social Psychological Processes in the Diffusion of Belief and Behaviou...
[Tech Weekly] The consequence of a Web that never forgets 23 Jul 2013 | 04:12 pm
A technological solution is not the answer to our privacy woes. This is the juicy core of my argument in this essay I recorded for the 16th July 2013 edition of The Guardian’s Tech Weekly, not long a...
[Untangling the Web] On domesticity, in Libertine 8 Jul 2013 | 01:06 pm
Home is where the hub is, wrote Kat Jungnickel and Genevieve Bell in 2009. Now, in an interview about Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You for a special issue of Libertine, I speak ab...
[Untangling the Web] What the Web is Doing To You (Meltdown) 5 Jul 2013 | 01:57 pm
Are we doomed? Are we saved? Are we somewhere in between? I spoke at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 23 June as part of the FutureNow weekend. The topic? The internet, ...
[Tech Weekly] The man behind the curtain 4 Jul 2013 | 03:52 pm
In which I explore why we want to believe in magic. Here’s the transcript from this week’s Email from Abroad for The Guardian’s Tech Weekly: Those who’ve been listening to Tech Weekly for a while kn...
[Untangling the Web] Launch day! 4 Jul 2013 | 03:29 pm
Untangling the Web: What the Internet Is Doing to You is officially available in all good book shops today, both the digital and the bricks ‘n mortar variety. It’s been an adventure across TV, my MSc ...
[Tech Weekly] A Visit to the Cyber-Addiction Clinic 25 Jun 2013 | 05:29 pm
I was on the bus home to Venice, CA in February via Culver City and passed the Cyber Addiction Recovery Center. It was too good to be true. So I visited Chris Mullligan, its chief therapist, for The G...
[Tech Weekly] Dear Yahoo!: A letter from a person who wishes to remain anonymous 12 Jun 2013 | 03:57 pm
In May 2013, Yahoo! announced that it had bought the immensely popular blogging service Tumblr for 1.1bn USD. I’m an avid Tumblr-er (and another and another) and I couldn’t resist writing a letter to ...
[Tech Weekly] CB Radio: the Facebook of the 1970s 7 Jun 2013 | 11:58 am
The Guardian’s Tech Weekly took on a different flavour when I went on the road for the first half of 2013. The physical distance meant I couldn’t host the show as usual, and so, working with producer ...
[Event] State Library of Victoria's Digital Society Series 12 May 2013 | 09:34 pm
From 20-21 May, I’ll be in Melbourne to open up the State Library of Victoria’s very exciting Digital Society Series with two evenings of public talks: [The Digital Society Series is] a new speaker s...
