š¤ More Than Robots #86 February 2025
"Art doesn't change anything. Art changes you" David Lynch As the world takes a turn and we consider our national resources here's a whole heap of tools and ideas to help us all keep on.
"Art doesn't change anything. Art changes you" David Lynch
As the world takes a turn and we consider our national resources here's a whole heap of tools and ideas to help us all keep on.
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ā Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024
TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among teens. Roughly six-in-ten teens say they use TikTok and Instagram, and 55% say the same for Snapchat.
Handbook of Children and Screens
ā A synthesis of research on the interplay between screen use and the health, development, and well-being of children and adolescents.
The Platformization of the Family
How the digital platforms that mediate so many aspects of commercial and personal life have begun to transform everyday family existence
Social digital dilemmas: Young peopleās and parentsā negotiation of emerging online safety issues
Despite the active engagement of young people in their own online safety and their evolving algorithmic literacies, there is a limit to the agency that they can exercise over the content they see and interact with
From social media to artificial intelligence: improving research on digital harms in youth
Debate about AI's effect will encounter the same limitations (focusing on high-income, non-diverse populations) if we do not start our inquiry knowing that the benefits and deleterious influences of these emerging technologies will be experienced by young people all around the world.
Orbits: a global field guide to advance intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed interventions
An intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed approach, and examples of what they look like in practice.
š§° Resources
ToS about
Check a company's terms of service quickly and easily for the good, the bad and the ugly.
Experience AI
Experience AI is an education programme that teaches students aged 11-14 about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning
Protect Us
Short film exposing the harrowing ways generative AI applications and chatbots are being weaponised to exploit children online.
A Little Everyday
Media literacy for families made simple
Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy overview
Engage and empower students on the contemporary issues of consumerism and the environment
i-ACCESS MyRights
Helping child victims of crime in Europe understand their rights during legal proceedings using a child-friendly AI chatbot: Also: How Platforms Should Build AI Chatbots to Prioritize Youth Safety
Deepfakes Tracker
A resource to learn more about the prevalence of deepfakes and manipulated or out-of-context media and narratives in our information ecosystem.
š”Inspiration and opinion
From free play to play-free: childhood in the shadow of the home
Childrenās opportunities for free play have been declining for decades. How have we got here? Why does it matter? What hope for the future of play? Also: From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?
What happens when the internet disappears?
There is a strange and bitter loss of autonomy in watching humans slowly disappear beyond a veil of AI murk and inherently unstable digital storage
The need for a strategic fact reserve
We need a long-term national programme to slowly, carefully accept digital data into a read-only archive. We need the expertise of librarians, archivists and museums in the careful and deliberate process of acquisition and accessioning.
ā¦and finally
How to be purposefully stupid