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'The Relationship Between Truth and Technology' | Chris Walker & Martin Stern | TEDxYork

559 views · Published 20 December 2018 · 17:43 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Chris and Martin share two experiences with recent applications of technology.

One example comes from his work as the producer of technology-enabled experiences. Chris and a team from York worked with the National Holocaust Centre and Museum to create interactive conversations with survivors of the Holocaust. The project involved creating 200 hours of new primary source archive material, accessed through natural language questions from audiences to the survivors.

The other example comes from his research into ‘dark ads’ used in political campaigning. Prompted by the DCMS Committee Disinformation and 'Fake News', Facebook recently released a slew of adverts run by Vote Leave during the 2016 EU Referendum, which provides a unique insight into the machinery of ‘dark advertising’.
 Chris Walker is a technologist and designer of interpretive media. He has recently become a spare-time campaigner for data privacy issues.

Martin Stern was born in the Netherlands just before WW II and arrested aged five years by the Nazis who sent him with his one year old sister Erica to Westerbork prison camp in the Netherlands and then to Theresienstadt (Terezin), a walled town north of Prague which the Nazis used for a deception operation to obscure the true fate of deported Western European Jews. Many died there and all were intended to die. His little friends in Westerbork were gassed in Sobibor or Auschwitz. Due to the actions of a woman prisoner in Theresienstadt, Erica and Martin survived. In 1950 they moved to England. Martin studied medicine in Oxford and became a hospital doctor in Leicester, UK, specialising in immunology. He teaches about the Holocaust at Britain’s National Holocaust Centre and is a member of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Uni of Leicester. His special interest is in the relevance of behavioural sciences to the study and prevention of genocide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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