Events: detail
Friendship in the Digital Age
- Hosted by:
- ICA
- Speaker:
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Mark Vernon
Carole Stone
Derek Draper
MT Rainey
Kate Hamilton, Gravity Planning and Research
Ray Pahl
- Starts:
- September 27, 2007 at 08:00 pm
- Ends:
- September 27, 2007 at 09:30 pm
- Location:
- Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nash Room, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
Social networking sites are multiplying at an unprecedented rate, and being taken up by an increasingly wide spectrum of society. But who needs 100, or 1,000, friends? What is the boundary between friendship and networking? Should we treat this desire for community as a positive sign that Western society is not based on selfish individualism? Or are ‘friends’ simply another 21st-century status symbol?
Speakers: Mark Vernon, author, The Philosophy of Friendship; Carole Stone, managing director, YouGovStone; MT Rainey, founder of online social network www.horsesmouth.co.uk; Derek Draper, psychotherapist and former adviser to Peter Mandelson, and Kate Hamilton, MD of Gravity Planning and Research, and member of the Friendship Project. Chair: Professor Ray Pahl, co-author of Rethinking Friendship.
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
Additional information
£10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members.
For more information
- Contact person:
- ICA
- Phone:
- 020 7930 3647
- Website:
- Friendship in the Digital Age
