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#185: WIRED's Vicki Turk: On Digital Etiquette

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Vicki Turk is a senior editor at WIRED magazine, working across print and digital. She has just written a book called Digital Etiquette all about modern manners. It's described as 'an indispensable guide to minding our manners in a brave new online world.' In this episode we discuss how to email better; how our friendships have changed and the future of technology. Digital Etiquette is out now, published by Penguin, in all good bookshops.

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Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete. I'm back in your ears with

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today's guest who is Vicky Turk. She is a senior editor at Wired magazine

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knows a lot about the internet and the digital world we live in,

1:15.8

and she's just written a book called Digital Eticates, all about how to have good manners

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online, basically. We talk about the workplace and how to

1:25.3

better manage your communication with colleagues we talk about friendship and how

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actually it's changed how we keep in touch with our friends now because there's just so many

1:34.4

different apps and so many different inboxes that we're always using and just in

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general how to be politeer on the internet and how to deal when things go wrong.

1:44.0

So I hope you enjoy this episode.

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We just kind of go into it and have a bit of a chat about the book

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