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Home Social media Social Media and Control

Alex Grech November 14, 2015 Leave a Comment

Social Media and Control

Social media and control

On Thursday 19 November, I am running a public talk with my friend Bryan Alexander for the Strickland Foundation in Malta.  The headline for our talk – ‘Is Social Media controlling our lives?’ – was suggested by the Foundation’s head, a former editor at the Times of Malta.  I woke up early yesterday morning to do a one-minute clip – now embedded in this news item on the Times.

This evening, less than 24 hours from the Paris attacks, red eyes from watching screens of various sizes – including the tweets and periscopes of those trapped in cafe’s and the Bataclan – and still trying to understand what’s next, together with my 13 year-old – I keep thinking of the dialectic between the devices we carry in our pockets and the control they sometimes wield on our lives; and how sometimes they are witness to what’s best and worst about being human.

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