Smartphone Apps Increase risk of Date Rape
Two of South Africa’s leading experts on relationships and technology warn women to be alert using smartphone dating apps. During Women’s Month in August, reports from NPRi in the USA, raised alarm bells on gross privacy violations via GPS built into all smartphones. “Whilst I am a keen supporter of social media as the modern […]
Social network interview about Facebook
Now and then students contact me while doing research on articles I’ve written on this blog or interviews published on my work. So this one started out very interesting although the eventual questions were not asking the right questions I believe. Student Request I’m studying journalism at Stellenbosch University, and have to write an in-depth […]
15 Minutes with Ramon Thomas
This interview was compiled for a weekly feature in the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London: Online behaviour expert Ramon Thomas talks to the Dispatch about technology and how it affects you. Profiles will appear at www.dispatch.co.za Q: YOU describe yourself as being an online behaviour expert. What does that entail?A: My field of research is […]
Interview on Chai FM, Jewish community radio station
[NB! I often receive phone calls or emails from people thinking this website is Chai FM. Please contact them directly via their website because I was only a guest on the radio station a few times.] Today I received an invitation to do my first interview with this new Jewish community radio station next week […]
Interview Zooming In On Men, SABC3
On Sunday, 21 September, I was interviewed in a pre-recorded episode “Dating Games” for the fascinating show Zooming In On Men (ZOIM). ZOIM, now in it’s 2nd season, is broadcast Sundays at 4.30 pm, following Car Torque, with the target market being the mature South African man – apparently the rest of the media believes […]