Sunday Feature

Liquid Living

Sunday 2 December 2007 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

Paul Bennun goes on a seven day digital diet. News, food, entertainment and social life are all accessed solely through the portal of his computer screen. From his desktop he uses Skype to conduct interviews to assess the social implications and cultural ramifications of a life lived online.

We hear the arguments for and against the effects of virtual interaction, from the psychological repercussions of being able to contrive multiple web personas, to the social impact of flexible working conditions facilitated by wireless gadgetry, to the different ways of thinking required for Instant Messaging.

Featuring interviews with Howard Reingold (inventor of the term 'virtual community'), sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, 'cybershrink' Sherry Turkle and science-fiction writer William Gibson.

Duration:

45 minutes

Sunday Feature

Episode and Playlist Information

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• 6 Jan 08 Bosphorous Battles
• 30 Dec 07 Oscar in America
• 23 Dec 07 A Cloud...
• 16 Dec 07 RAND
• 9 Dec 07 The origins of music
• 2 Dec 07 Liquid Living
• 25 Nov 07 Poetic World of Newt
• 18 Nov 07 As Big as Life
• 4 Nov 07 Elgar and Empire

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