🎁 More Than Robots #84 December 2024
The festive season is here and as we get cosy, watch the adverts and gather with family/friends here are a few crackers to explore
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The festive season is here and as we get cosy, watch the adverts and gather with family/friends here are a few crackers to explore
📖 Research
Online Nation
Teenage boys were more likely to encounter content showing dangerous stunts, while girls were more likely to encounter potential harms relating to body image. Also: What role does social media play in violence affecting young people?
Toddlers, Tech and Talk
In many households, tech is integrated in 0-3s’ playful lives as just another play artefact, such as drawing with pencils on paper while the TV is on or a Smart Speaker plays music, which they sometimes attend to.
Children's Data Lives report
Fear of embarrassment often drove children to carefully manage some aspects of their privacy
A computational model of reward learning and habits on social media
Younger people and women are more goal-directed–updating their strategy more purposefully to maximise social media rewards
Shaping Our Feeds: Young People's Experiences of Social Media Algorithms
A majority of young people surveyed had been served content by social media algorithms that they enjoyed or found useful. Also: The Online Experiences of 5-11 Year Olds
Evidence-Based Actions To End Online Child Sexual Exploitation And Abuse
Perpetrators were more likely to be someone the child already knew. The most common perpetrator was an older friend or acquaintance (aged 18+), followed by a friend under 18. Also Guiding principles for addressing technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse
Steam-Powered Hate: Top Gaming Site Rife with Extremism & Antisemitism
The research found 1.83 million unique pieces of extremist or hateful content
🧰 Resources
Toolkit for including children in participation
How to listen to babies, toddlers and young children and involve them in decision-making on matters that affect their lives.
Verify
Verify allows you to check an image's content credentials to find out the source and how it was made.
Reframing Adolescence and Adolescent Development
A resource for communicators who want to change the narrative about adolescence and adolescent development.
💡Inspiration and opinion
Is the internet good for children?
The internet is good for children in so far as society affirms 11 key principles and can answer yes to the challenges that they pose
Are we done with Trust?
The essence of trust in another seems to be slipping through the digital cracks. Also Four in 10 UK adults encounter misinformation
Toy Theory: Technology and Imagination in Play
What if the toy were positioned as central to material and technically underpinned culture—today and over the course of human existence—rather than as a marginal, trivial object?
Meta Horizon Worlds Has Been Taken Over by Children
Lowered age restrictions and cheaper VR headsets have led to young kids hijacking the metaverse. Maybe we should let them keep it.