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Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world

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The Digital Human: Series 11

The Digital Human: Series 11: Anger

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Anger

10/04/2017

Series 11

BBC Radio 4 - The Digital Human, Series 11, Anger

Aleks Krotoski explores the role of digital media in our age of anger.

We seem to be living in an age of anger and nowhere is that more apparent than certain parts of the internet. Aleks Krotoski explores if digital media is a symptom or the cause.

We seem to be living in a world of polarised opinions giving rise to increasingly angry exchanges on television, print and of course social media. Aleks Krotoski asks how online anger works and is it a symptom or the cause of the problem. 

An enormous Chinese study demonstrated that angry content is the most shared across the web while US researchers have asserted that while we might not be any angrier than in the past we encounter much more angering content than ever before and that anger lingers priming us for the net encounter.

Aleks makes the comparison with another increasingly congested space that of our roads; an environment where similar mechanisms of anonymity and depersonalisation are at play. She concludes by discussing the social role of anger and why so many groups have begun to rely on it to get their way.

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