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Christ's Alumnus Makes VIRTUAL REVOLUTION

30 January 2010 - 20 February 2010
Russell Barnes (m. 1987) - the award-winning film-maker who read History at Christ's - is the producer of VIRTUAL REVOLUTION, a major new four-part series on BBC2 to mark the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web. This airs on Saturdays at 8.30pm, starting 30 January.

 

The first programme looks at the revolutionary impact of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube.  Future episodes explore the impact of the Web on the power of the nation state, the real costs of 'free' information, and the question of whether homo sapiens is being transformed into homo interneticus.  

For further details see the series website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/index.shtml

Programme 1: The great levelling?
The wonder and walls of Wikipedia; the blogger media revolution; who really has power on the web? Is it the online crowd or the 'gatekeepers'? 

Programme 2: Enemy of the state?
As the web transcends the barriers of the physical world the orthodox view is that the nation state will inevitably wither as a porous web of hyperlinks conquers the globe.

Programme 3: The cost of free
Free service, limitless information, endless opportunity for the user... the web seems to defy all the laws of economics. But are we all aware of how much we are trading our privacy for a free web?

Programme 4: Homo interneticus?
Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the worlds knowledge our finger tips? Is the web really changing us- the way we think, behave, and relate to each other. 


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