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Aleks Krotoski explores whether the digital world results in us having more unfinished business and whether this is always a bad thing.

Ever had that gnawing feeling that there’s some unfinished business you have an itch to resolve? Maybe it’s a friendship you’ve let drift or a task at work left incomplete. Maybe it’s that sense of having too many tabs open at once on your computer. Our hyper-connected modern lives facilitate multi-tasking and the expansion of our social circles, and it could be argued a by-product of this is that we have more unfinished business than we had in the past. In this episode of the Digital Human, Aleks Krotoski asks how might we adapt to this - and whether it always a bad thing.

Producer: Lynsey Moyes

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Mon 6 Mar 2023 16:30
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Marie-Anne Chidiac is a Gestalt psychotherapist and organisational consultant. She is co-founder of ‘Relational Change’, an organisation that works to develop relational skills in individuals, teams, organisations and communities. She is the author of "Relational Organisational Gestalt". 


Laura Carney is a magazine copy editor, writer and illustrator. Her recent book ‘My Father's List’ is , who was killed by a distracted driver, and describes her life-changing experience of finding and completing his bucket list.


Leah LeFebvre is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, studying the intersection between mediated communication and romantic relationships. Currently, she is examining pre-initiation behaviours and rejection processes on Tinder, ghosting as a modernised mediated disengagement, and memorialization on Facebook and virtual platforms.


Nastasia Griffieon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technology, Human, and Institutional Behaviour Group of the University of Twente, and a member of the international Games for Emotional and Mental Health Lab (GEMH Lab). Nastasia’s recent research focuses on the relationship between social media use and emerging adults’ wellbeing.


Rohini Chatterji is Senior Editor-Desk at BOOM and has previously worked across several digital newsrooms in various capacities. At BOOM, Rohini drives the news coverage in the form of explainers and general news.


Ruth Sutton is a former educational consultant turned self-published writer. Her nine novels are set in West Cumbria, where she now lives. https://www.ruthsuttonauthor.co.uk/

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    Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Radio 4

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