UCL partners with Twitter to broadcast lecture on Periscope

A UCL lecture will be live-streamed around the world today on the Periscope platform, in the first partnership of its kind with a UK university. The lecture, taking place on Monday 24 October at 1pm, will be given by Professor Daniel Miller (UCL Anthropology) as part of the MSc programme in Digital Anthropology. Available for iOS and Android devices, the Periscope live-streaming video app gives everyone the ability to share and watch live broadcasts from their mobile phone, enabling interactive two-way between broadcaster and viewer in real time. During a live stream, viewers can connect directly with the broadcaster by sending messages or sharing their support by tapping the screen to send Hearts. The app was acquired by Twitter in early 2015, shortly after it was launched. This will be the first academic lecture to be Periscoped in partnership with a university, allowing an enormous potential audience to view and engage with the content, which is based on findings from the 'Why We Post' research project - which investigated how social media is used around the world. This landmark project saw nine UCL anthropologists each spend 15 months living in eight countries in communities as varied as an English village, a factory town in North China, and a community on the Turkish-Syrian border.