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Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.

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23: Can design make the internet safer?

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04/04/21 • 50 min

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Sarah Drummond of design agency Snook about baking safety into the design of tech products and services.Talking points:How far can designers affect our online experiences?The internet - as designed so far - doesn’t always seem to be in our best interests so why should we trust designers?'Safety tech’ implies bolting tools onto existing services - is there a better way of thinking about designing for safety?Is tech innovation possible without making mistakes?Could ’safer’ platforms and services become more attractive than those that prioritise persuasive design to keep us clicking?
Further reading:
https://inclusivedesignrecruitment.co.uk/
Marc Goodman: Future Crimes, Inside the digital underground and the battle for our connected world (Transworld, 2015)

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5: Can the Government Stop Internet Harms?

Tech Shock - from Parent Zone

11/16/20 • 45 min

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Will Perrin of Carnegie UK Trust about the upcoming (sometime soon!) Digital Harms Bill. What are the ideas behind the government’s proposals? Will they work? Talking points:Where does the idea of a ‘duty of care’ on which the legislation will be based come from?What does it cover - and, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t it cover?Are we agreed about what is harmful?How can global tech companies be persuaded to comply?

1. Does the Online Safety Bill rely on something unworkable?

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05/28/23 • 37 min

Vicki and Geraldine discuss Parent Zone’s paper, Tools: A False Hope?, looking at user empowerment tools, which are often seen as a 'silver bullet' in discussions about keeping both children and adults safe online. But will they actually work?

How long would it take to set up all the tools on all your favourite platforms and services? (Spoiler alert: quite a long while.)
How effective are tools anyway?
Who knows what happens to all the data that has to be collected for the tools to work?

Smartphone bans for under-16s: the parent perspective

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04/21/24 • 29 min

Just months after the DfE announced guidance on mobile phone use in schools, the possibility of a smartphone ban for under-16s is being actively discussed.Support for bans like these can, at least initially, be very strong – but also nuanced.
In a slight change of format for Tech Shock, Vicki is joined by a member of the Parent Zone Studio, Riley Mackrory to share and discuss the parent perspective; based on contributions we’ve had directly from parents themselves.
Talking points:

is support for smartphone bans more ‘knee-jerk’ than much needed?
are smartphones detrimental to socialising or do they facilitate another form of it?
how might such a ban impact user safety, education and the practicality of everyday life?

2. Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism

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11/13/24 • 48 min

Surveillance capitalism – the gathering, analysis and use of personal information to influence people and sell things – arguably requires losses in (or infringements on) privacy to work best.

At the same time, anonymity online can bring its own risks: it may facilitate trolling as well as the spread of mis- and disinformation. User anonymity might also undermine age restrictions on online platforms and content.

In this episode, Vicki is joined by privacy advocate and author Mark Weinstein to discuss this possible conflict between privacy and anonymity, as well as user IDs and user data in the age of AI, and behaviour modelling when it comes to tech use and critical thinking.

Talking points:

How have privacy infringements changed since the early days of the internet?
Are user IDs really the answer to issues surrounding anonymity and privacy?
Can children be taught responsible tech use within a culture of restriction and abstinence?

3: How can the public have more say in the future of the internet?

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11/02/20 • 32 min

Legislation is coming in the UK and Europe that could change the internet. But is the public consulted? Not much.
Vicki Shotbolt and Geraldine Bedell talk to Ellen Judson of Demos, who has been researching public attitudes to online harms.
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Talking points:Why does the discussion of ‘what to do about the internet’ tend to go on over people’s heads among politicians, think tankers, tech companies and academics?The technological options may not be immediately clear - but shouldn’t it be possible to reach a public consensus on what we care about?We increasingly talk the language of rights when we talk about online harms. Does this help?People are very anxious about online harms - but a minority believe that they have personally experienced harm. Are we overreacting?Are younger adults more tolerant of online risks and harms?

4. From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?

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12/04/24 • 37 min

As the online world continues to develop, possible risks and harms do too. Business models can encourage the promotion of harmful content via algorithms, and children’s data is too often viewed as a commodity. Often, legislation is left scrambling to keep up with tech – and even when it’s successfully passed, evidence ‘supporting’ it can be conflicting (or simply lacking). In-between all this, the rights of children can be sidelined or infringed upon.
But are we yet in a good place for tackling some of these challenges? And if not, where next?

Helping Vicki answer this question is Sonia Livingstone, professor at the London School of Economics and Director of the Digital Futures for Children Centre.

Talking points:

How can regulation stay relevant in a world of generative AI and ‘innovation at speed’?
Between parental controls and age verification, are we forgetting to ask key questions about child rights?
Should we be following Australia in raising the digital age of consent, or does research say otherwise?

1. Damon de Ionno

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10/02/22 • 48 min

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the Managing Director of Revealing Reality, the organisation researching technology, media and online harms for the DCMS, Ofcom and others. They cover the sending and sharing of nude images, the possible ditching of ‘legal but harmful’ from the Online Safety Bill, and the shortcomings of age assurance.
Talking points:

How has sending nude images become both routine and a form of abuse?
Sex positivity: an aspect of privilege?
Why boys and girls have different assumptions about sharing nude images.
Should ‘legal but harmful’ be replaced by ideas about context and volume?
Age assurance - why parents help their children get around it.

4. Carissa Veliz

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10/03/21 • 49 min

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the author of Privacy is Power about toxic data.
Talking points:

Are you not getting jobs because of your secret data file?
What’s wrong with the argument that data collection doesn’t matter if you’ve got nothing to hide?
What links online data brokers with the creators of the subprime mortgage market who were behind the 2008 financial crash?

3. How brain science can help with parenting teens

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09/26/21 • 51 min

Vicki and Geraldine ask Dr John Coleman, author of The Teacher And The Teenage Brain, whether recent advances in neuroscience can help parents understand and manage their teenagers’ online lives
Talking points:

Why carrot may be better than stick
The teenage brain - a perfect storm for online addiction?
OK, so we know a bit more about the teenage brain - can that be turned into strategies for making family life happier?

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Tech Shock - from Parent Zone currently has 114 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Tech, Parenting, Kids & Family, Gambling, Podcasts, Arts and Children.

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