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FiveBooks Interviews
Tom Chatfield says computer games aren't just for teenage boys locked in their bedrooms - they are vital tools for intellectual enquiry and social skills. And they’re fun. He picks FiveBooks about fun, play and videogames... and he also picks FiveGames.
Aleks Krotoski is a broadcaster, journalist, and academic specialising in technology and interactivity. She talks to FiveBooks about the subtle ways in which web-based communication has altered human relations.
Veteran foreign correspondent Richard Beeston says the damage Kim Philby
did to British intelligence was amazing. He got a strange pleasure from
betraying people, says Beeston in today's FiveBooks.
The Translation Movement in ancient Baghdad was as important a phenomenon as the European Renaissance, so why, asks Amira Bennison, hasn't anyone heard of it? She chooses FiveBooks on Science and Islam.
In the last of our seasonal retrospectives, former Times editor Peter
Stothard says it's worth remembering that newspapers can bring good people
down with bad. He chooses FiveBooks that should help any editor.
As research published today shows that half of Britain's 16-24 year olds are happiest when they're online, journalism professor Todd Gitlin says the change we face now is as monumental as that between the oral and the written tradition. He chooses the best Five Books on the future of the media.
Award-winning journalist Nick Davies tells The Browser about investigations, the dangers of PR and his lifelong ambition to bring down the government.
To most people, the Net really is a mystery. It either crept up on us unawares, or was already there when we arrived. It’s like God or the military created it in 7 days and now we’re just working out what to do with it. Lev Grossman, book critic and technology columnist from Time magazine, chooses some books which help illuminate what the Net actually is, its history, and how it has revolutionised our lives