Digital
PickPath - Immersive digital platform empowering creators
PickPath has been working with Te Papa, Taranaki Winter Festival and Barbarian Productions in the past few years and are now taking the platform to the market. Joel Baxendale spoke to Culture 101’s … Audio
Can the EU's new rules really rein in the worst of Big Tech?
Some of the world's biggest tech companies are now subject to new laws in European Union that are aimed at minimising harmful online content while protecting users' privacy. Last Friday the 19 largest… Audio
Digital divide hitting Pasifika students in Auckland lockdown
A fundraising initiative has been set up to address the digital divide affecting hundreds of pacific students in Auckland disrupted by the Covid-19 lockdown.
Educational inequities have arisen from a… Audio
A Glitch in the Matrix: Are we living in a digital simulation?
Director Rodney Ascher's debut 'Room 237' offered up some wild theories about interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's visionary masterpiece 'The Shining.' His latest documentary, 'A Glitch in the… Audio
Dispelling the myth of the end of the golden age of reading
In her latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, Harvard Professor Leah Price dispels the myth of the end of the golden age of reading by suggesting that reading might not have been so… Audio
Kiwi facing intense lockdown conditions in French Guiana
Things have intensified in French Guiana since we last spoke to Nicholas Holmes, with the lockdown extended four weeks and a curfew put in place from 9pm-5am. Those who break the curfew risk a €3750… Audio
Question of the Day for 8 October 2019
What one figure from history would you like to see a hologram of in concert? Dead musicians are taking the stage again in digital form. Audio
Calling Home: Catherine O'Connell in Tokyo, Japan
The Rugby World Cup kicked off in Tokyo on Friday night, so it is apt that Calling Home is heading there for the first time this weekend. We're joined by ground-breaking Kiwi lawyer Catherine… Audio
Vinyl poised to outsell CDs for the first time since the 1980s
Vinyl, a format that was believed by some to have died decades ago, is now on the verge of outselling CDs for the first time since the mid-1980s. Roger Marbeck is with us to discuss. Audio
NZ ponders digital multinational tax
The government is considering a new digital services tax on multinational companies who make money out of online services in New Zealand. Tax expert Robin Oliver joins us to discuss how this might… Audio
How do the internet and Pacific peoples get on? It’s complicated
Writer and artist Lana Lopesi and academic Damon Salesa discuss the complicated relationship between Pasifika people and the internet – the subject of Lopesi's book False Divides. Audio
Competition for tech jobs predicted to ramp up
Industry's increasing reliance on technology could worsen fierce competition for top specialist talent next year. As part of its annual Salary Survey the recruitment company Robert Walter's has… Audio
What do young people want? In the ‘60s it was free love, but today it’s free media
Guyon Espiner explores the changing relationship between the media and the advertising industry which has previously bankrolled it with a panel of experts. Audio
Big brands "turbo-charging" marketing to young people
How big brands use new digital marketing tools to create and sustain new markets for junk food, alcohol and tobacco. Professor Gerard Hastings is a renowned British marketing expert who has been a… Audio
Fee McLeod: Super STEM Fair
Auckland's MOTAT is having a Super STEM Fair for budding scientists, inventors, engineers and maths whizzes on 8 April. Fee McLeod from The Mindlab by Unitec talks about how to get children away… Audio
Time, tech, and art – SFMOMA’s Keir Winesmith
Wellington just hosted the National Digital Forum, where a big topic was how to attract the maximum audience for art in the digital age. One of the keynote speakers was Australian Keir Winesmith, Head… Audio
Clare Curran: plans for our digital future
The new minister of broadcasting, communications and digital media has done nine years of what she describes as her digital apprenticeship. This week in Clare Curran's speech at NetHui she outlined… Audio
Topaz Adizes says the future of documentaries is interactive
Right now there's all sorts of discussion about communication, business and personal relationships in the Digital Age. Is everything going to be on-line from now on, or will there still be room for… Audio
Your vote - caught in the web
Social media and big data companies are harvesting and vast amounts of information from users' online profiles to increase the effectiveness of political advertising. Adam Bennett explores how this… Video, Audio
Study finds digital investment ahead of consumers demand
A study has found Asian businesses, including New Zealand exporters, are moving faster than consumers in using digital networks. . Audio