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The only annual event looking at the challenges and opportunities of raising and educating children in a digital world.

Capture a moment that tells a story about living, learning and connecting in cyberspace.

📖 Research

An isolated incident that has an immediately harmful impact appear to be easier to recognise. There is a risk that discrete pieces or genres of content receive disproportionate focus. However, the research identified that the cumulative route to harm appeared to cause the most severe harm.

Enabling recovery following negative online experiences is mediated by broader socio-cultural processes.

Parental e-safety support was found to moderate the relationship between psychological distress and online risk and between vulnerability and online risk

Online engagement with arts and culture has the potential to impact on mental health in a measurable way in young people with high unmet mental health needs.

Digital communication has significant potential to foster relationships between children adopted or in care and their birth families, but it is critical to stay mindful of the contact-in-reality aspect of their lived experience, and the emotionally real nature and potential impact of their digital interactions.

📎 Resources

Interface brings in some of the leading speakers within the field of online safety and education to talk about their area of work

Free mobile app that claims to protect you from cyberbullying, hate speech and toxic content on social networks

Have you found something abusive online that you think should be removed? If you have previously reported abusive content to a social network and had no response, you can escalate your complaint to us.

Ollee is a digital friend for ages 8-11. It helps children explore feelings around school, family, friends, the world and much, much more.

💬 Inspiration and opinion

Some predatory viewers send messages in Twitch’s text chat that appear to look like donations to the children — a popular monetization feature on the platform — in an effort to coerce them into sexual acts.

Traffickers in Southeast Asia force thousands of people into perpetrating cyberscams that defraud Americans out of millions of dollars. Here’s how they do it.

Microchips are runic inscriptions on sand which, when coursed through with lightning, act as conduits for incantations that are written in occult tongues and studied obsessively by monks

...and finally

If you want a thoroughly modern scare story then the AI-generated Loab may be the ghost in the machine you are looking for