Nocturne
Whether TV or radio, media take on a different quality when the majority of us have gone to bed. Aleks Krotoski explores what this means in the digital world.
There's a perception that it’s always daytime on the internet. What that misses is that it’s not always the case for us when we go there. We gravitate to different parts of the digital world during the night. We slow down without the bombardment of emails updates and notifications.
We become explorers of soundscapes on meditation apps, we listen to soft, soothing mumblings on podcasts lulling us to sleep. For those digital night owls, it’s an Alice like experience falling through a labyrinth of interconnected internet rabbit holes discovering subjects you wouldn’t even have thought about when the sun is up.
In this episode Aleks celebrates 'noctunality' on the internet whether for those seeking sleep or those for whom this is the time to wake up.
Producer: Peter McManus
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Designing for Sleep
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drew ackerman
Drew Ackerman is the creator and host of Sleep With Me, the one-of-a-kind bedtime story podcast featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Mental Floss, and NOVA. Born out of Drew's childhood insomnia, Sleep With Me was inspired by late-night comedy radio, which was the only thing that helped him fall asleep. Created in 2013, Sleep With Me combines the pain of insomnia with the relief of laughing and turns it into a unique storytelling podcast. Drew's stories on the show are inspired by his childhood as the oldest of six children and past jobs as a fuzzy dice and iron-on patch salesperson, fruit fly monitor for the State of California, and librarian for one of the largest jails in the country. Through Sleep With Me, Drew has dedicated himself to help those who feel alone in the deep dark night and just need someone to tell them a bedtime story.
Will Straw
Anna Silman
Anna Silman is a senior writer at New York Magazine's The Cut, where she has worked for almost five years. She started out covering feminism and pop-culture before branching out into feature writing. She grew up between London and Toronto and currently lives in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Tom Middleton
Tom Middleton is a pioneering electronic artist, award winning sound designer and sleep coach. An innovator of science based functional wellness music for apps such as Calm and Breathonics.
Informed by neuroscience and psychology he creates sounds to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve focus, productivity and sleep.
He has toured the world and performed to millions observing the positive benefits of music, and has shared the stage with Mark Ronson, Lady Gaga and Kanye West.Â
His mission is to rescore the soundtrack to life with beautiful empathetic music and positively benefit our wellbeing.
Currently on the Music Mind Brain MSc program at Goldsmiths and is a Co-Chair on the AFEM Health Group.
Annika Norell Clarke
Dr Annika Norell-Clarke is an Associate Professor at Karlstad University in Sweden. She has been researching insomnia since 2008 and is currently investigating how digital habits and thinking patterns impact people's sleep.
Helena Fitzgerald
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- Mon 26 Oct 2020 16:30Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 4
- Sun 17 Apr 2022 21:30Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 4
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The Digital Human
Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world
