Privacy is often seen today as a matter of technical innovation and regulation, where privacy is traded within the digital market in the hope of security.
However, our trust of other people and the willingness to take the risk of sharing our digital information with them, as on social networking sites, goes hand-in-hand with a lack of confidence in institutions, both state and commercial, that helps to blur the distinctions between public and private.
This confusion is magnified in an age when our personal activities leave behind a permanent trail of digital fingerprints - a mass of personal information the uses of which we have varying amounts of control.
Dr Norman Lewis will emphasise both the importance of rethinking privacy and its key role in meeting the challenges in our wired world.
Click here to Read Sean Bell's Review of this Talk
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Read more... [Dr Norman Lewis on The End of Privacy? The future of trust in the transparent society]
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Without satire, are comedians forced to the ‘edge’ of taste in order to make an impact?
It seems that the closest we come to political satire is to go through the motions of monotonously and superficially asserting the tired cultural norm of cynicism towards authority.
The demand for a new satire continues to go unsatisfied. Has it's chances of resurrection been irreparably damaged by new laws governing offence and the more insidious cultural unwillingness to upset anyone?
Is the upsurge of participation in stand-up comedy a new opportunity for satire to emerge? Finally, when the content of comedy seems all 'observational' and sketch based, we should ask 'What happened to the joke?"
The panellists will be Tim Black from Spiked-online and Simon Fanshawe, writer, broadcaster, comedian and activist. The discussion will set out to encourage contributions from the audience and it will be chaired by the Brighton Salon’s Sean Bell.
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Read more... [Simon Fanshawe and Tim Black discuss 'Is it possible to be satirical today?' on 20th January 2010]
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'If a child feels an incident is racist - it is'
(model head teacher quoted by Ofsted)
It is estimated that around 250,000 racist incidents have been officially reported by schools since the legal duty to report took effect in 2002. Race relations officials claim this is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the hidden reality of racism in Britain - 'institutional' or otherwise.
Are schools awash with racism or is this a fiction produced by a new brand of official anti-racism?
Click here to Read Sean Bell's Review of this Talk
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Read more... [Adrian Hart on the Myth of Racist Kids on Tuesday November 17]
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 Saturday October 17: The 21st century looks set to be the age of online collaboration. While old forms of community and solidarity have waned, leaving us apparently more fragmented and individualised, the social web enables many of us to work, play and organise with others in ways previously unimaginable.
Technologies like Flickr, Delicious, Wikipedia and LINUX evidence new means of sharing information and working together. Many suggest these technologies will have far-reaching social implications, and even presage a new form of production and work outside the market system.
Click here to Read Sean Bell's Review of the Talk
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Read more... [Cory Doctorow, Nico Macdonald and Michael Bull on 'The Future of Collaboration: Sharing and Work in the Networked Age' on Saturday October 17]
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