Digital Culture

Digital Culture

Bald man wearing glasses and a peach shirt sits on a chair against a white background, gesturing with his left hand while talking.
19mins
"I call it a tyranny of attention because there's so many demands on our attention coming from so many different directions that we are simply overwhelmed and we don't have the mental bandwidth to cope with it."
A man with short, grayish hair, wearing a dark blazer and black shirt, stares directly at the camera against a black background.
9mins
"I think we need a truly open-ended conversation with 8 billion strangers, and what makes that hard to do increasingly is a level of political fragmentation and extremism and partisanship born of our engagement with these new technologies."
Microscopic view of a translucent, spiral-shaped Trichinella spiralis larva within a blue-stained muscle tissue.
4mins
“Part of what's happening now in the world is tension between organic animals and an inorganic digital system which is increasingly controlling and shaping the entire world.”
7mins
Have we evolved to understand multiple rejections on Bumble, or survive more than one ghosting from Tinder? Christine Emba explores the sociology of modern dating and how to make them more ethical.
digital amnesia
3mins
Is social media changing your memory? Here’s what the science actually says.