Generational Divide; Webcam
Thinking Allowed
BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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'Webcam' - the use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but one with profound implications for many facets of human life, from self-consciousness and intimacy to the sustaining of long-distance relationships and the place of the visual within social communications. Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology at University College London, talks to Laurie Taylor about a study which took him from London to Trinidad.
Also, the 'Generational' divide: Today's social problems are the problems of generations, according to much public debate. Terms such as the 'baby boomers' and the 'jilted generation' are a common feature of discussions about debts, access to higher education, housing or pensions. Jonathan White, Associate Professor of European Politics at the LSE, talks to Laurie Taylor about his sociological investigation of contemporary uses of the generational concept: where did this form of thinking originate and does it disguise more than it illuminates in terms of inequality in modern Britain? He's joined by Mary Dejevsky, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and the chief editorial writer at The Independent.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:44.0 | The B.C. |
| 0:49.0 | people try to put us to down. |
| 0:51.0 | Talking about my generation You know, when ever |
| 0:54.0 | just because we get around. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, whenever I heard those lyrics back in the mid-60s, |
| 1:00.0 | and back then it was impossible to escape them |
| 1:02.0 | unless you lived in a Hebridean cave |
| 1:04.0 | I always felt a sense of outrage of being told by some whipper-scapper guitar-smashing mod |
| 1:08.9 | that I and my entire generation should f f-f-f- should fade away. |
| 1:13.0 | Why don't you all fade away? |
| 1:16.0 | Don't try to dig what we all say. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, a not totally dissimilar emotion has more recently been aroused by seeing the |
| 1:27.2 | constant contemporary references to the greedy have it all living in Clover |
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