Sunday 28 August 2011

The Secret History of Social Networking

Listen to the two Radio 4 programmes from February 2011 - from hippies and hackers to the Twitter phenomenon.

Click to link to Radio 4 programme



Has Facebook replaced religion?

There was a very apt comment on the way social networking is, in a way, 'replacing' religion, on the Radio 4 broadcast of 'Thought for the Day'. Link to this here, and slide the player to around 1.49 to hear the 11 minutes to eight broadcast.

Who are you?

Media and Collective Identity
"Identity is complicated - everybody thinks they've got one." - David Gauntlet

Note the CSI theme tune: 'Who Are You?' by The Who

How British do you feel?

St Mary's School Media Studies: How 'British' Do You Feel? (Collective Identity): A useful article from The Guardian newspaper about how the Internet has affected our sense of national identity . Followed by this presentation...