Better Than You Know Yourself: influence, fake news, algorithms, and your online self
1st June 2017First Brexit. Then Trump. Were they related? Were “dark forces” working to manipulate the population at large to achieve their sinister…
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Seeking the Self: A new podcast adventure
23rd March 2017“There was something vampiric about devouring a person’s whole life in an 80-minute podcast interview, then moving on to someone else.”…
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When Status Anxiety is No Longer Just in Your Head: a review of Black Mirror’s Nosedive
25th October 2016We would like to believe, just like all those flowered memes flying across Twitter and Instagram, that it doesn’t matter what…
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Leaning Out: How the “Will to Share” is Changing Us
21st July 2016We all know that social media has a pull on the ego, but how does this pull actually work and what…
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Psychotherapy Online: The Not So Final Analysis
20th July 2016Technology enables us to communicate with each other; it underlies this very blog allowing me to share with you the conclusions…
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Are You in Control of Your Tech, or is Your Tech in Control of You?
20th May 2016Last Monday morning I made a small change on my iPhone that has had a rather massive impact. I disabled my…
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