Technology, data and society

Jenny Huberman examines the crisis that ran parallel to the health one during COVID-19 – that of boredom. …Read more

In this episode, George Miller speaks to Tim Stevens about what got him interested in cybersecurity and why it’s too important to treat it as solely the domain of IT professionals.…Read more

Ross Bellaby, author of 'The Ethics of Hacking', asserts that it is vital to understand the ethical value that hackers can play in society, and judge them for their use of cyberspace to protect people from harm.…Read more

Tim Stevens, author of 'What Is Cybersecurity For?', considers the infinite need for cybersecurity and explains why it’s simply not working. …Read more

Philip Roscoe, author of 'How to Build a Stock Exchange', exposes Silicone Valley’s utopian myth that it would free us from the clutches of the state. …Read more

Dan McQuillan, the author of Resisting AI, suggests that ChatGPT may be seductive, but it’s a dangerous distraction from the socially useful production and commons-based solidarity that we really need, and we must resist it.…Read more

Listen to authors and editors talking about the key social challenges of the moment in the top ten Transforming Society podcast episodes from 2022.…Read more

Dave Beer looks at the latest twists in the Twitter soap opera and considers how tech platforms influence and envision an imagined future. …Read more

Ahmed Badawi Mustapha examines the area of 'digital poverty' in Sub-Saharan Africa and the impact this has on productivity and social wellbeing. COVID-19 has further exposed the problem and led to an increase in social problems. …Read more

Only a year after Clare McGlynn and Kelly Johnson published their book 'Cyberflashing: Recognising Harms, Reforming Laws', upskirting and cyberflashing became specific criminal offences in Northern Ireland, following evidence given by McGlynn to the Stormont Assembly Justice Committee. Rebecca Megson-Smith charts the influence of the Bristol University Press publication on making cyberflashing a criminal act.…Read more