The Digital Human

The Digital Human

Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort of world we’re creating with our ‘always on’ lives.

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  • Detox

    Mon, 6 May 13

    Duration:
    29 mins

    Available:
    16 days remaining

    Aleks Krotoski asks if we could all benefit from a technology detox.

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  • Isolation

    Mon, 29 Apr 13

    Duration:
    28 mins

    Available:
    9 days remaining

    Aleks Krotoski explores our lives in the digital world. This week she asks, are our ever more connected lives actually making us lonelier? Produced by Victoria McArthur and researched by Elizabeth Anne Duffy.

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  • DH 22 Apr 13: Transgression

    Mon, 22 Apr 13

    Duration:
    29 mins

    Available:
    2 days remaining

    What is it about the digital world that encourages normal people to disregard the rules of everyday life? Is it the cloak of anonymity the net offers? The social rules of online communities? Or simply human nature? This week, Aleks Krotostki delves into the dark side of the digital world to explore whether or not the internet fuels the breakdown of social and moral boundaries. She speaks to a troll who claims Jesus and Socrates as her forebears, Dave Eshleman who was one of the guards in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and Professor Alex Haslam who recreated the experiment for the BBC, with startlingly different results

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