Paperback / softback. New. And what happens to relationships when love, sex and hate can be mediated by a computer? Social psychologist Aleks Krotoski has spent a decade untangling the effects of the Web on how we work, live and play.

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ALEKS KROTOSKI is an academic and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. Aleks' PhD thesis in Social Psychology (University of Surrey, 2009) examined how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Read up on her academic and research activities and interests here. Aleks presented the Emmy and Bafta winning BBC 2 series Virtual Revolution in 2010, about the social history of the World Wide Web. In her blog for the project she outlined her manifestos about the social, political, economic and psychological impact of 20 years of the Web. She writes for the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and hosts Tech Weekly , their technology podcast. Her writing also appears in Nature, BBC Technology, New Statesman, MIT Technology Review and the Telegraph . She is also the New Media Sector Champion for UKTI, the government department that promotes British businesses around the world.

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Bookseller: The Saint Bookstore (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: A9780571303663
Title: Untangling the Web
Author: Aleks Krotoski
Format/Binding: Paperback / softback
Book Condition: New New
Quantity Available: 5
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0571303668
ISBN 13: 9780571303663
Publisher: Faber & Faber
This edition first published: 2013

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