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The Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus |
Time is ticking away so make certain that you revise with care the issues and debates. I offer below some useful links to views on the debates surrounding the impact of digital media on society.
Navigate to these sites and watch and make notes: Essential viewing
[1] This is a link to the clips section of the BBC series The Virtual Revolution [which won a BAFTA in 2010]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r/clips
[2] this is the link to the home page of the programme
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n4j0r
[3] Sadly, the I-Player links no longer offer the programme. However, click on the link below to get to the You Tube clip from the first episode and from there navigate your way through the rest of the sections offered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPD4Ep_J81k
[4] the last link is to the interviews page of the BBC site with unedited interviews with some key players.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/interviews.shtml
Episode 1:
The wonder and walls of Wikipedia; the blogger media revolution; the price of peer-to-peer piracy... who really has power on the web? Is it the online crowd or the 'gatekeepers'? Is the web a platform for sharing or is it inequality writ large?
Episode 2:
Is the web indestructable or can censorship, cybercrime or infrastructure attack bring it down? As the web trancends the barriers of the physical world the orthodox view is that the nation state will inevitably wither as the porous web of hyperlinks conquers the globe. But some states are fighting back.
Episode 3:
Free services, limitless information, endless opportunities for the user... the web seems to defy all the laws of economics. But are we trading our privacy for a 'free' web?
Episode 4:
Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world's knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans> Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the 'yuck and wow' of the web? Is the web really changing us - the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?
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