📓 More Than Robots #81 September 2024
Whether it's back to school, back to back to back meetings or 'never mind the backlog', September is back. And it's a bumper.
"Do you remember?" Earth, Wind and Fire
Whether it's back to school, back to back to back meetings or 'never mind the backlog', September is back. And it's a bumper.
📖 Research
The Good Childhood Report 2024
More children and young people were unhappy with school than with other areas of life
How children and young people learn about money in a digital world
The shift towards increased digital financial transactions affects the whole family and starts young
Meeting young people where they are
Essential digital support breaks down operational silos, and treats young people as a whole person with overlapping and intersecting needs. More: Signpost+
Trends in Financial Sextortion
Instagram and Snapchat are the most common platforms used but end-to-end encrypted messaging apps are used to move victims to secondary platforms and there is a prevalence of Cash App and gift cards for methods of payment.
Insights on responses to children experiencing online harm and abuse
When a child does feel able to share their experience, or it is discovered by an adult, they need to be met with supportive, age-appropriate and non-judgemental responses to help them cope with what has happened.
Investigating Players’ Perceptions of Deceptive Design Practices within a 3D Gameplay Context
Six core themes were identified that formed new categories of deceptive design: Predatory Monetization, Default to Purchase, UI Misdirection, Emotional Interpersonal, Persuasion, Physical Placement, and Narrative Obligation
Using Behavioural Insights to Engage Children with User Support Materials
It is not just the availability of age-appropriate user support materials that is important, but also how children are prompted to engage with them.
Real or Fake, Cybersurvey
86% of teens said ‘I can be creative online’. 61% of teens feel the internet has ‘helped me make a good relationship with someone’
🧰 Resources
Digital Youth Engagement Update
Trends and insights from Your Police UK
Probono economics
Support for charities to help them: Measure, understand and articulate their impact, influence and inform policy and make best use of their data
AI Intersections Database
A database of intersections between key social justice and human rights areas and AI impacts
The Everyday Digital widget
Display media literacy resources on your organisation’s website in a few simple steps.
💡Inspiration and opinion
What are the opportunities for tackling Child Financial Harms and Exploitation through ‘Safety Tech’?
Tackling CFH/E is a complex, multifaceted challenge which requires multiple players, partnerships and cross-sector collaboration.
The Very Common, Very Harmful Thing Well-Meaning Parents Do
Parents can surveil their kids, so they feel that they should
The race to save our online lives from a digital dark age
When people look back at this period, they’ll say, ‘Oh, well, you know, here was this sort of incomprehensibly fast technological change, and a lot of history got lost during that change. Also Excess memes, photos and ‘reply all’ emails are bad for climate, finds study
…and finally
Why read a classic book when you can play it...