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Literary Festival 2013: New Media and the Future of Literacy
Some people have been struck by the aphoristic potential of Twitter. Others see developments in new media as bringing the era of the literature to an end. This panel will explore the way new media impacts on traditional literary and philosophical forms of writing and reading. One question is about the *threat* of new media to classical literacy: fragmentation and overload in new media leading to the withering away of traditional literary, philosophical and poetic forms.
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The RSA Future Work Awards - meeting anxiety with innovation
We celebrate a gathering wave of innovation around the world as people seek to fashion a better future work for themselves By Charles Leadbeater Watch the Future Work Awards ceremony, 6pm GMT - 6th February 2019 Hundreds of women from the poorest slums in Peru have found work thanks to Laboratoria, a pioneering programme to equip them for jobs in the digital economy.
Future Work Awards - RSA
The Future Work Awards 2018 will recognise the most innovative and inspiring approaches to work from around the globe, from people redesigning how to work with robots, groups of self-employed freelancers sharing their incomes, new approaches to lifelong learning and trade unions which give voice to young workers in the gig economy. The Awards will be given to organisations that are not standing still waiting for jobs to be disrupted by artificial intelligence and gig economy platforms.
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Literary Festival 2013: New Media and the Future of Literacy
Recorded on 2 March 2013 at Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building Some people have been struck by the aphoristic potential of Twitter. Others see developments in new media as bringing the era of the literature to an end. This panel will explore the way new media impacts on traditional literary and philosophical forms of writing and reading.
The Long and Short
Thomas Sprat was a one-man, 16th-century version of Wired magazine. As the official chronicler of the early development of the Royal Society, Sprat witnessed modern science taking shape.
The Long and Short Season 4
Music seems to reflect the ups and downs of our emotional lives in the abstract because it is usually not about anything in particular, as the philosopher Roger Scruton argues in Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. Music is about itself, Scruton argues, its meaning is not tethered to a thing in the world and so it becomes boundless.
Where does identity go once memory goes?
‘On my good days, I can almost pass for a normal person. On my bad days, I feel like I cannot find myself… I don’t know who I am and what I am going to lose next.’ So says Alice Howland, as played by Julianne Moore, in the film Still Alice (2014). A professor of linguistics in her mid-50s, Howland is trying to explain to her youngest daughter what it feels like to have Alzheimer’s disease.
Hooked on labs
Thomas Sprat was a one-man, 16th-century version of Wired magazine. As the official chronicler of the early development of the Royal Society, Sprat witnessed modern science taking shape.
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