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Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at 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. Here, Aleks charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. With contributions from Al Gore, Martha Lane Fox, Stephen Fry and Bill Gates, Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers. Yet, at the same time, the Web's openness enables hardline states to spy and censor, and extremists to threaten with networks of hate and crippling cyber attacks.
Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at 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. Here, Aleks charts how the Web is forging a new brand of politics, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. With contributions from Al Gore, Martha Lane Fox, Stephen Fry and Bill Gates, Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers. Yet, at the same time, the Web's openness enables hardline states to spy and censor, and extremists to threaten with networks of hate and crippling cyber attacks.
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| Series: | The Virtual Revolution |
| Episode | 2 Enemy of the State |
| Recording date: | 2010 |
| Published: | 2010 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:59:22 |
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| Producer: | Francis Hanly |
| Narrator: | Aleks Krotoski |
| Contributors: | Al Gore; Jeff Bezos; Tim Berners-Lee; Clay Shirky; Stephen Fry; Martha Lane Fox; Oxford Girl; Biz Stone; Evan Williams; Vint Cerf; Paul Meuer; Daniel Schmitt; Bill Gates; Mitch Kapor; Austin Heap; David Runciman; Leo Murray; Lee Siegel; Hu Yong; Ross Anderson; Peter Thiel; Rainer Ottis; Thoomas Ilves; Konstantin Goloskokov |
| Publisher: | BBC, The Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Cyberterrorism; Online social networks; Web 2.0 -- Social aspects; World Wide Web -- Political aspects |
| Footage description: | BAP50354- CCU4092 INTW. THIEL PETER BAP50355- CCU4097 INTW. KAPOR MITCH BAP50356- CCU4101 INTW. BERNERS-LEE TIM BAP50357- CCU4104 INTW. CERF VINT BAP50358- CCU4105 INTW. SIEGEL LEE |
| Production number: | FKAH912S |
| Videofinder number: | 81595 |
| Available to public: | no |
