The Web Psychologist

About my guest Chris Baraniuk is a science and tech journalist who writes for national publications including The Atlantic, Wired, BBC Future, New Scientist and The Economist. He writes about cultural history, mass media, and the social impact of technology, exploring the nexus between what new technology is and how human beings actually respond to […]

About my guest Yvette Luhrs is a feminist pornographer and co-founder of Sekswerk Nederland. She studied film sciences at the UvA, where she specialised in Porn Studies, focussing specifically on the portrayal of women’s visual pleasure, as well as the media debate around pornography. For two years Yvette was the program director at Dusk, the only […]

About my guest Aaron Balick is a UKCP registered psychotherapist providing one-to-one psychotherapy, supervision, consultation and other related services located in Clerkenwell, London. He is an experienced media and social networking consultant, CBBC’s agony uncle, and author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking. During the podcast, you will learn About the Tinderisation of everyday life […]

About my guest Robert Hudson is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and sexual & relationship therapist who specialises in sex addiction treatment and whose practice is based in Central London. He is an integrative psychotherapist who draws on humanistic, psychoanalytic / psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural models and he works with individuals, couples (both same sex and […]

About my guest Eva Pascoe is the Founder of Cybersalon, a think-tank for networked culture based in London. She’s studied Linguistics, Psychology and Ergonomics of Human-Computer Interaction, Human Trust in Machines and Dynamic Decision Making, and her work has been published in Proceedings of Decision Making Conference. Eva co-founded Cyberia Internet Café, the world’s first Internet […]

About my guest Al Raphael is a data scientist at Mattr, who loves to play with vast amounts of data. He works at Mattr, an exciting startup from Austin that provides rich context around a brand’s influencers, their audience, and their psychographic profiles by uncovering personality traits, interests and values. With experience in machine learning and other […]

About my guest James Wallman is a futurist and author of the newly published best-seller, Stuffocation. With an MA in Classics from Oxford University and an MA in Journalism from the UAL, James has commented on trends happening now, and predicted what will happen next for publications like GQ, the New York Times and the Financial […]

About my guest Glenn Wilkinson is a hacker and security analyst working for SensePost’s UK office. His research has been presented at security conferences such as Black Hat (Las Vegas), 44Con (London), ZeroNights (Russia), and Hackito Ergo Sum (Paris). As a Rhodes Scholar, he holds two master’s degrees from the University of Oxford. During the podcast, you […]

About my guest Tristan Harris is currently a product philosopher at Google studying Design Ethics: How the design of technology influences users’ behaviour, attention and well-being. He is also working on an independent design movement for Time Well Spent, akin to the Organic movement for farming, to shift from an economy that’s a race to […]

This week I’m running a special edition of the podcast… As you may know from some of my recent episodes, I’ve started to explore the broader implications of the use of persuasion online, and in particular what it means from an ethical, social and human-centred perspective. As I have been researching my new book, I’ve become […]