On the NPR TED Radio Hour, Sunday 29th of November at 6.05pm
'Screen Time Part 2'
When we go online, we present a digital version of ourselves. How do we transform when we interact inside our screens?
Writer Jon Ronson says Internet commentators can behave like a baying mob and he believes it's time to rethink how we interact when we go online.
He explores how one tweet can ruin your life and speaks to people that have been affected. Can the life we live inside the screen overtake the life we live outside of it?
Why build a virtual world? Philip Rosedale talks about the virtual civilization world he created, Second Life, and how virtual reality might only get better and more integral to our lives in the future.
He discusses how well people came to know each other in a virtual space with some of them even getting married in real life.
Do you like curly fries? Have you Liked them on Facebook? You might be sharing more information than you realize, says computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck.
Many of us have a second self, a virtual personality composed of posts and tweets stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks: What happens to that personality after you die?
After Hurricane Sandy hit Manhattan, writer Abha Dawesar watched people scrounging for outlets to charge phones. She wondered: Do we miss out on what's real when we dive into our digital lives?
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