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Pick of the Week

Posted on June 25, 2015 by mkmswain

It’s the best of the festivals this week on theartsdesk, with reports from Glastonbury, Hyde Park and Vortex Jazz Club, plus Rob Delaney, the Welsh in Patagonia and David Suchet’s Lady Bracknell. Read my full newsletter here

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A dazzling debate about privacy in the digital age

Posted on May 2, 2014 by mkmswain

Leave your smartphones on when entering the theatre. But beware: playful audience participation comes at a price. You’re not just sending a selfie – you’re laying yourself open to brutal public data mining. It’s a neat microcosm of the social … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged apple, clubcard, data, data mining, donmar warehouse, edward snowden, facebook, google, google maps, guardian, ham & high, hampstead, highgate, human rights, ipad, iphone, itunes, james ball, james graham, josie rourke, liberty, london, loyalty card, metadata, north london, orwell, play, privacy, review, security, selfie, shakespeare, shopping, smartphone, social media, spy, supermarket, terms and conditions, tesco, the tempest, theatre, twitter, washington post, william hague | Leave a comment

Modern warfare

Posted on June 2, 2013 by mkmswain

Wake up. Bus to work. Office banter. Office tedium. Office misogyny. Meal deals. Emails. Calls. Customer abuse. Missing colleagues. Resentful interns. Loans. Debts. Life lost in the shuffle. An average day for an averagely content person? Or an increasingly unbearable … Continue reading →

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