Aleks Krotoski is an academic, psychologist and journalist who writes about the impact of technology on our lives. Aleks’ upcoming book Untangling the Web: What the Internet is Doing to You, explores the ways the web can influence our relationships and change our perceptions of ourselves and others.
Aleks is in Australia as the inaugural speaker for the Digital Society series at the State Library of Victoria (tickets are still available for both free events on May 20 & May 21). We were lucky enough to speak to Aleks about her work. You can listen to the full interview below, as Aleks explores the importance of cultivating an online persona, the tension that exists between our private and public selves and the importance of information literacy. She also shares her ambition to own a full set of the 1974 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Show notes and links:
Aleks’ online reporter’s notebook for Untangling the Web
Aleks’ Tech Weekly podcast series
Aleks interviews T. Mills Kelly on Lying about the past
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (Amazon)
Google’s Eric Schmidt: The Internet needs a delete button