Untangling the web with Aleks Krotoski
How has the most revolutionary innovation of our time - the internet - transformed our world? What does it mean for the modern family? How has it changed our concepts of privacy? Of celebrity? Of love, sex and hate?
The online version of Untangling the Web is the collection of interviews, links, photos, videos and brainstorms that feed into Aleks Krotoski's fortnightly Observer column. Every other Sunday, the next topic will be revealed. Feel free to contribute your ideas on each in the comments of the blog post, by email to
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Untangling the web: attention
In the final part of this series, we ask whether the internet is actually changing the way our minds work
Untangling the web: privacy
Aleks Krotoski: The internet is an ideal medium for sharing information, but at what cost to our private lives?
Untangling the web: the way we work
Yes, technology has freed us from the office. But can it ever replace the informal, coffee-machine contact that is often so productive?
Untangling the web: how the internet has changed the way we treat death
Social networking sites allow us to maintain a web presence long after death, writes Aleks Krotoski
Untangling the Web: Death
This week's column asks what happens to our digital lives after we die.
Untangling the web: Ownership
How games and social networks that encourage sharing are blurring old ideas of personal property – and even identity
Untangling the Web: Intellectual Property
Is it time to re-think ownership in a post-scarcity world? Aleks Krotoski delves into the thorny issue of intellectual property in this fortnight's Untangling the Web column.
Home: how the internet has changed our concept of what home is
The internet has changed the way we view our homes – and offers another virtual one online, writes Aleks Krotoski
Untangling the Web: Home
Home sweet (online) home.
Development: the web will experience growing pains as it develops
The internet will go through rites of passage just as its users progress through the seven ages of man, writes Aleks Krotoski
Untangling the Web: Life stages
Is the Web struggling with a mid-life crisis or in an adolescent strop?
Education: the virtual world can help students and teachers
The internet has transformed the educational landscape, giving students more scope to access information and offering them the opportunity to collaborate in research projects online, says Aleks Krotoski
Digital serendipity: be careful what you don't wish for
The binary nature of the web means serendipity – those accidental, happy discoveries – is anything but. By Aleks Krotoski
Untangling the Web: Serendipity
Is the web the ultimate serendipity engine?
Untangling the Web: the next six topics
I'm preparing to untangle a new crop of human social phenomena from the web: what effect does this new communication technology really have on us and society?
Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways
As the tools available to publishers grow more sophisticated, it's up to us to experiment and see what sticks, writes Aleks Krotoski
Untangling the Web: Storytelling
The web has taken the traditional story and has mashed it, mixed it and morphed it into something new and different.
Friendship: why social networks are too crowded to get close
Social networks are trying to be more subtle at accommodating our shifting allegiances, but they're no substitute for real time with our friends, writes Aleks Krotoski
Untangling the Web: Friendship
The Web is a cold, technologically-mediated communication device that serves only to connect people with information. That it's connected us with one another is an added bonus. By transforming our interactions into binary 1s and 0s, have we lost something essentially human about our interpersonal relationships?
Marketing: charities make the most of their Facebook friends
Manipulating social networks helps even small, grassroots organisations attract more support, writes Aleks Krotoski
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