As the majority of the population work from home during the pandemic, people have become more dependent on technology than ever before. From Zoom meetings to PE, Netflix to schoolwork, every aspect of our lives has moved online. As well as leading to lifestyle changes, this has highlighted access problems and concerns about online privacy.
Videos and Podcasts
- Viral: The 5G Conspiracy TheoryBBC documentary investigating how Covid-19 triggered the spread of a 5G conspiracy theory.
- Covid cough detecting phone app being created by Essex scientistsA phone app that could detect whether you have coronavirus by the sound of your cough is being developed by scientists at the University of Essex.
- Digital Planet - Privacy concerns over contact tracing appsJournalist Timandra Harkness tells on what types of apps are being used where and about the tech behind them (from 5:38)
Resources
- The Guardian (article) - Digital divide 'isolates and endangers' millions of UK's poorestCharities warn of 'devastating effect' as most vulnerable households left without access to web.
- Covid-19 news and information: consumption and attitudesA range of information from Ofcom about how people are getting news and information about the crisis.
- Connecting digitally – coronavirus adviceAdvice from Age UK to help older friends and family get online
- Coronavirus and 5GIn this article from The Conversation, four experts investigate how the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory began
- "Pay the wi-fi or feed the children": Coronavirus has intensified the UK’s digital divideArticle from Cambridge University - the coronavirus lockdown risks turning the problem of digital exclusion into a catastrophe of lost education and opportunity for the UK’s poorest and most vulnerable
- Will the coronavirus break the internet?As more people have stayed at home during the pandemic, more people have been working online and using streaming platforms, putting a strain on the internet.
- Contact-tracing apps: there’s no evidence they’re helping stop COVID-19Allison Gardner of Keele University discusses the issues behind th eongoing track and trace debarcle.
- The Virus Changed the Way We InternetThe New York Times examines changes patterns of behaviour during the pandemic.
- How Covid turbocharged the QR revolutionBBC article on the use of QR codes during the pandemic.
- Nonverbal Overload: A Theoretical Argument for the Causes of Zoom FatigueThis article in Technology, Mind, and Behavior (TMB) focuses on ‘non verbal overload’ as a possible cause of Zoom fatigue.
- Covid-19: Fake News ResearchArticle in The Conversation detailing the first Covid-19 study that looked at whether fake news actually changes people’s behaviour.
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