The Digital Human Folgen

What is the biggest threat to our privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends? And do people have different attitudes towards privacy depending on their culture?

Control is one of the big attractions of living in the digital world, we only post the best pictures of ourselves enjoying the best parts of our lives. But does that mean we start to treat our lives more like a brand, to be sold to our friends and protected from anything negative? Aleks Krotoski talks to Sherry Turkle director of MIT's Initiative on Technology and the Self to ask if this could cause us problems. She'll also find out what happens when you give up control of your online life or have it taken over.Contributors:Aidan Moffat www.aidanmoffat.co.uk @AidanJohnMoffatSherry Turkle www.alonetogetherbook.com @STurkleDavid White www.conted.ox.ac.uk/davidwhite @daveowhiteCharlie McDonnell www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike @coollikeAndy Zaltzman www.andyzaltzman.co.uk/ @hellobuglers

Aleks Krotoski asks not just what technology can do for us but also what is it doing to us and the world we're creating? Each week she takes us on a journey to where people are living their digital lives to explore how technology touches everything we do both on and offline.Taking broad themes of modern living as a starting point she charts the experiences of homo digitas; both the remarkable and the mundane, to understand how we are changing just as quickly as the advances in our technology.What does the deluge of images from digital photography mean for our memory when every second is being recorded, edited and posted online for posterity? Are the identities we create in social media no more than exercises in personal branding, to be managed and protected like any other product? And as traditional churches struggle to leverage technology to spread their faith do the behaviours we all display online have more in common with religion than rationality?The time for wonder at the digital world is over, we live with it in every day. The question really is who are we now because of it?