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Footage of the London Degree ceremony of The Open University on the 22nd September ...2018, morning session. Presiding Officer: Professor Ian Fribbance, Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. Honorary graduate: Dr Aleks Krotoski. Honorary graduate presenter: Professor John Domingue, Director of KMi, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics. Graduate presenter: Mr Matthew Staples, Senior Lecturer & Staff Tutor in Politics & International Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social

Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks a...t how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names - including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web's inventor - she explores how far the Web has lived up to its early promise. In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedo