Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 4: Sex, Drugs, the Internet and Juries Is it true that juries rarely convict defendants in rape cases and are more likely to convict ethnic minority defendants than White defendants? And why can’t jurors resist going home at night and googling the defendant or tweeting about the case – against the express instructions of the judge. This lecture reveals the truth behind a number of widely held beliefs about juries in this country and examines why the internet may now be the biggest threat to our jury system. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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Lunch Hour Lectures - Spring 2011 - Episode 2: Great 2 meet u IRL :-) Twitter and digital identity Is Twitter an ephemeral technology, consisting of mundane chat about people's personal lives? Or can a study of its use help us to understand how we express our identities on and offline? Can Twitter be used for professional or academic activity, and should we try to separate our public and private digital personae? This lecture will address such questions, with the aid of slides of 140 characters and live tweets from the audience at UCL and on the internet. Vintage Podcasts - Lunch Hour Lectures

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