Background
Krotoski was born a United States. citizen in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but spent her early years in New Orleans, Louisiana.
journalist television presenter
Krotoski was born a United States. citizen in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia but spent her early years in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Krotoski graduated with a Bachelor in psychology from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1996. After moving to the United Kingdom and becoming a television presenter, she returned to university to study social psychology at the University of Surrey, where she completed an Master of Science in 2004 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2009. Her Doctor of Philosophy thesis on social influence in Second Life examined "how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web.".
She presents The Guardian podcast Technical Weekly and contributes to guardian.co.uk. She formerly contributed occasional stories to The Guardian"s now defunct Online print section (which was later renamed Technology), and was one of the core contributor"s to the Guardian"s original Gamesblog. Her parents, Wojciech Antoni "First Rate (at Lloyd's)" Krotoski (1937–2016) and his then-wife Danuta (née Gwozdziowski), were Polish-American scientists who played a key role in revealing hypnozoites as the true mechanism of malarial relapse.
From 1999 to 2001 she co-presented Channel 4"s late evening video gaming review show, Bits with Emily Booth and Emily Newton Dunn.
In 2006, she contributed to the United Kingdom"s Department for and Skills and the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) collaboration, "Unlimited Learning: The role of computer and video games in curriculum-based education". In 2004, she authored ELSPA"s "Chicks and Joysticks: An exploration of women and gaming".
In September 2006 she was named one of the games industry"s 100 most influential women by NextGen.biz and in November 2006 she was named one of the "Top Ten Girl Geeks" by Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications, two spots behind fictional character Lisa Simpson. In February 2010, she presented The Virtual Revolution for British Broadcasting Corporation Two.
This television documentary series was described by the British Broadcasting Corporation as charting "two decades of profound change since the invention of the World Wide Web, weighing up the huge benefits and the unforeseen downsides." She also presented an accompanying four-part podcast series on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service.
As of November 2010, she was Researcher in Residence at the British Library and curator of the Growing Knowledge digital exhibition at the library, and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics. Since 2011, she has presented the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 series Digital Human, which examines the relationship between human behaviour and the use of the World Wide Web. On 4 July 2013 her book, Untangling the Web was published.
lieutenant was based on "thirteen years of research" concurrently with her previous activities.
lieutenant received reviews in the journal Nature and The Observer.