Emma Barnett

Some sexist ‘jokes’ can be funny. Others are just offensive and we shouldn’t succumb to societal pressure to laugh for the sake of it. This weekend, as I attempted to tidy to my house, I happened to notice the label inside my boyfriend’s trousers – which he had strewn across the floor of our bedroom. [...]

The internet was meant to set information free; not hand over editorial power to the unseen algorithms of Google and Facebook. Have you ever thought about what information you are not seeing on the internet every day? Have you ever considered how your search queries may yield totally different results to your brother, husband or [...]

Our social networking pages are being policed by outsourced, unvetted moderators. For most of us, our experience on Facebook is a benign – even banal – one. A status update about a colleague’s commute. A “friend” request from someone we haven’t seen for years (and hoped to avoid for several more). A picture of another [...]

The new EU laws do not go far enough and tackle how to control what regular web users write or post about others, without their permission, online. New EU laws announced yesterday, which mean social networking sites and companies will be forced to delete inaccurate or embarrassing information about people online should be applauded. But [...]

I visit Asian restaurant Inamo, where technological innovations have rendered waiters almost redundant. Accelerating technological developments have undoubtedly made communicating and accessing content the quickest and most efficient it has ever been. However, most would probably argue that some aspects of our lives don’t need further technological interference – like, say, visiting a restaurant. But [...]

For the last six months I have been filming a new tech show for Sky 1 called Gadget Geeks. (disclaimer – i am not one of the geeks as you will read below). Here’s my take on the whole experience for The Telegraph: “When the team behind Sky 1’s Gadget Geeks asked me to present the show [...]

I had the great honour of winning the digital journalist of the year award at the Association of Online Publishers 2011 Awards ceremony. Essentially the Oscars of the digital journalism world, it was a wonderful night for me and The Telegraph Media Group, which walked away with a total of four awards. Celebrations and lots [...]

The Education Secretary’s plan to do away with ‘dull and harmful’ technology lessons in schools cannot happen too soon. Everyone my age remembers information technology (IT) lessons at school as an absolute joke. Forty minutes of our precious young lives each week were wasted by a clueless teacher reading off a sheet in a bid [...]

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, had no option but to join Twitter after his annus horribilis during 2011. Just when you thought every high profile person possible had joined Twitter, from US president Barack Obama, to the Dalai Lama, along comes @rupertmurdoch. Yes that’s right, the octogenarian media mogul has officially joined [...]

Allowing reporters to tweet from court is a refreshingly enlightened decision by the judiciary, as well as an inevitability. Journalists no longer need permission to tweet in court under new rules issued this week by Britain’s most senior judge. The decision is an enlightened one by Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice. After trialling the system [...]