Writer and philosopher

Talks

Old Man Shouts at Cloud – Could Trump turn off Europe’s Internet?

The Bunker podcast

August 13th, 2025

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Politics

Category: Interview, Podcast

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5 AIMS: Ideology and Divergent Interpretations of Trustworthy AI

SPRITE+ Lunch and Learn talk

March 19th, 2025

Themes: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital modernity, Politics, Trust

Category: Invited talk

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Insta-Worthy Memories and Filtered Truth

Royal Institute of Philosophy London Lecture Series 2024-25: Remembering and Forgetting

January 23rd, 2025

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Digital modernity, Memory

Category: Invited talk

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The Seven Veils of Privacy

Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series, Digital Futures, University of Manchester

March 20th, 2024

Themes: Privacy

Category: Invited talk

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The Seven Veils of Privacy

Interview with Giles Brown for Talk Radio Europe

March 18th, 2024

Themes: Privacy

Category: Interview

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The Enlightenment – Audiobook Preview

February 19th, 2024

Themes: The Enlightenment

Category: Promotional video

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Four Internets: Geopolitics, Ideology, and the Internet

Western Washington University

October 19th, 2022

Themes: Computing/The Internet

Category: Lecture/seminar

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Is the Internet Splintering?

The Gem of all Mechanisms (British Computer Society podcast)

October 13th, 2022

Themes: Computing/The Internet

Category: Interview, Podcast

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Data-driven personalisation and markets, politics and law

Interview with Jacob Eisler

August 5th, 2021

Themes: Digital modernity

Category: Interview

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Ethics of Surveillance, Power and Citizenship

#MiningData, Exploring the Ethical Dilemmas, Southampton

July 17th, 2018

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Privacy

Category: Invited talk

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Data Mining – Exploring the Ethical Dilemmas

#MiningData, Exploring the Ethical Dilemmas, Southampton

July 17th, 2018

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Privacy

Category: Panel

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What are Social Machines?

8th ESRC Research Methods Festival, Bath

July 4th, 2018

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Society

Category: Invited talk

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Computationally Mediated Pro-Social Deception

Promotional film for CHI '16: the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 26th, 2016

Themes: Privacy

Category: Promotional video

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The Right to be De-listed: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

iCLIC conference: Internet intermediaries and the law enforcement process - Challenges and opportunities, Southampton Law School

September 17th, 2015

Themes: Privacy

Category: Conference talk

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Are we Getting Lost in Data? What are the Impacts on Society?

BCS IT Impact Debate

July 6th, 2015

Themes: Trust

Category: Invited talk

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The History of Trust

Institute of Historical Research, Global History Seminar

March 5th, 2015

Themes: Trust

Category: Lecture/seminar

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Transparency, Open Data and Trust in Government

Web Science Conference

June 23rd, 2012

Themes: Computing/The Internet, Politics, Trust

Category: Conference talk

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Trust, Crowds and Crowdsourcing (Part 1)

CATCH Conference, Prinsenhof, Delft

June 5th, 2012

Themes: Trust

Category: Invited talk

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Trust, Crowds and Crowdsourcing (Part 2)

CATCH Conference, Prinsenhof, Delft

June 5th, 2012

Themes: Trust

Category: Invited talk

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Trust, Crowds and Crowdsourcing (Part 3)

CATCH Conference, Prinsenhof, Delft

June 5th, 2012

Themes: Trust

Category: Invited talk

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Can Conservatism Survive the 21st Century

Academy of Ideas, London

December 6th, 2011

Themes: Conservatism

Category: Panel

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