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Ben Bradshaw MP asks how modern communication techniques might be undermining democracy:
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And Laurie Taylor on the latest Thinking Allowed on Radio 4 looks at all these issues:
The Internet and Democracy
Thinking Allowed
14 May 2018
The Internet and Democracy:
14 May 2018
The Internet and Democracy:
Laurie Taylor analyses the social and political consequences of our digitised world.
In light of recent data breach scandals around companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, what does that mean for democracy?
Why has the Internet failed to set us free?
He's joined by Jamie Bartlett, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media for Demos, in conjunction with The University of Sussex; Monica Horten, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science and Will Davies, Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths College.
RELATED LINKS
Jamie Bartlett - Director for the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos
Will Davies at Goldsmiths, University of London
Monica Horten at the London School of Economics and Political Science
READING LIST
Jamie Bartlett, The People Vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it), (Ebury Press, 2018)
Will Davies, The Happiness Industry: How the Government & Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing, (Verso, 2015)
Monica Horten, The Closing of the Net, (Polity Press, 2016)
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The Internet and Democracy
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RELATED LINKS
Jamie Bartlett - Director for the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos
Will Davies at Goldsmiths, University of London
Monica Horten at the London School of Economics and Political Science
READING LIST
Jamie Bartlett, The People Vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it), (Ebury Press, 2018)
Will Davies, The Happiness Industry: How the Government & Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing, (Verso, 2015)
Monica Horten, The Closing of the Net, (Polity Press, 2016)
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, The Internet and Democracy
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