Anand Giridharadas: Global Media Ideas

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Partner:: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Location:: X|Media|Lab
Sydney, Australia
Event Date:: 06.17.10
Speaker:: Anand Girid�haradas
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Summary: As social networks become more pervasive and change the way we interact, New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas asks what happens "to our minds and our hearts when we become digital people?" Is the social web the world finds itself tangled in a totally new experience?

Anand Giridharadas doesn't think so. He draws parallels between the "ambient sociability" of village life in Bombay with the sprawling online communities we now interact with daily.

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Anand Girid�haradas

Anand Giridharadas is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His first book, a work of narrative nonfiction about his return to the India that his parents left, is forthcoming from Times Books in early 2011. It is titled India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking.

He is a columnist for The New York Times and its global edition, the International Herald Tribune: his Currents column explores fresh ideas, global culture and the social meaning of technology. In 2009, he completed a four-and-a-half-year tour as a foreign correspondent in India for The Times and the Herald Tribune, as their first Bombay presence in the modern era. He reported on India's transformation, Bollywood, corporate takeovers, terrorism, outsourcing, poverty and democracy. He was appointed a columnist in 2008, writing the Letter from India series.

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01.: The Rise of Digital Life

05 min 03 sec

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02.: The Traditional Roots of Technological Trends

03 min 53 sec

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03.: Building a 'Digital Philosophy'

02 min 48 sec

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04.: How the Internet Socializes Truth

02 min 54 sec

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05.: How Cell Phones Impact Traditional Societies

02 min 33 sec

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06.: Other Benefits of Technology

02 min 49 sec

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07.: Anonymity and the Decline of Civility

01 min 59 sec

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08.: The Problem with Personal 'Branding'

01 min 44 sec

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09.: The Problem with Online Political Participation

02 min 01 sec

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10.: The Problem with Metrics

03 min 17 sec

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11.: How the Internet Changes Reading and Writing Habits

02 min 35 sec

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12.: Evolving a Digital Philosophy

01 min 15 sec

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A Scale that Tweets Your Weight? Meet the Quantified Self

03 min 29 sec

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