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Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world

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The Digital Human: Series 21: Nocturne

Nocturne

Series 21

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Aleks Krotoski explores the digital night.

Whether TV or radio, media take on a different quality when the majority of us have gone to bed. Aleks Krotoski explores what this means in the digital world.

There's a perception that it’s always daytime on the internet. What that misses is that it’s not always the case for us when we go there. We gravitate to different parts of the digital world during the night. We slow down without the bombardment of emails updates and notifications.

We become explorers of soundscapes on meditation apps, we listen to soft, soothing mumblings on podcasts lulling us to sleep. For those digital night owls, it’s an Alice like experience falling through a labyrinth of interconnected internet rabbit holes discovering subjects you wouldn’t even have thought about when the sun is up.

In this episode Aleks celebrates 'noctunality' on the internet whether for those seeking sleep or those for whom this is the time to wake up.

Producer: Peter McManus

The Digital Human: Series 21

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