Dr Aleks Krotoski

Dr Aleks Krotoski is a researcher and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. Her academic work focusses on the makeup of online relationships, the social implications of the Web, the influence of online interactions, and how information spreads around online and offline social networks.
She writes for The Guardian and Observer newspapers, and hosts Tech Weekly, their technology podcast. Her writing also appears on BBC Technology, Nature, New Statesman, MIT Technology Review and The Telegraph. She recently completed the Emmy and Bafta-winning BBC 2 series Virtual Revolution about the economic, political, interpersonal and psychological implications of the Internet. 
She is currently the Researcher in Residence at the British Library, examining the future of digital technologies in research contexts.