🏞️ More Than Robots #87 March 2025

They honor no compact, break any promise, perjure, betray, and lie inexhaustibly - Ursula K. Le Guin

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📖 Research

⁠Supporting digital media literacy development in early years

Important work is being done around digital and early years at all levels. However, there remain important gaps in knowledge and more could be done to apply research into practice that directly benefits families. Also: Podcast discussion

COFACE Digitalisation principles

The aim is to ensure that digitalisation and new technological developments serve the general interest of all European citizens, support families and respect the rights of children.

Creating safe environments for children: prevention of trauma in the Extended Verse

At its core, the framework emphasizes a holistic approach to XV interaction, balancing safety measures with user empowerment. Also: Beyond Mute and Block: Adoption and Effectiveness of Safety Tools in Social VR

Short changed and out of time

62% of parents agree that financial harm online is a relevant issue for their children and family that needs to be dealt with.

AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking

Increased AI tool usage correlates with lower critical thinking scores. Also: Critical Thinking in the Age of Generative AI

Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation

A conceptual overview of nine main types of interventions, including their target, scope and examples, and a summary of the empirical evidence supporting the interventions. Also: Susceptibility to online misinformation

Features of digital media which influence social interactions between adults and children aged 2 to 7

Children learn more from media when adults join and support their use, but evidence suggests that parents do not always use high-quality interactions during joint media engagement - Also: Enacting and sharing digital practices in the early years

🧰 Resources

Communicating about‬ Child Financial Harms

This is a guide for organisations to communicate effectively to raise awareness of Child Financial Harm as a distinct and‬ urgent issue.

Most Popular Social Media Apps

Directory of popular apps used by children

Better Images of AI

An alternative repository of stock images for more helpful and diverse representations of AI.

Shore space

A safe space for teenagers worried about sexual behaviour

Mural Archive

2000+ images of murals in the UK

🗳️ Take part

Consultation on draft Guidance: A safer life online for women and girls

Ofcom consultation on nine areas where technology firms should do more to improve women and girls’ online safety. Also: Platform Design and the Risk of Online Violence Against Women and Girls

Open call for evidence: Digital Inclusion Action Plan

This call for evidence is seeking views on the digital inclusion action plan, including the first 5 actions.

💡Inspiration and opinion

You can never truly go back

Replacing the institutions that managed our democracy are platforms and, within those platforms, personalities.

Women Invent the Future

Technology should represent and include more people; new myths, stories and cliches can help to create a culture where that is possible.

Not My Problem

I asked an AI to predict the near future of art and creative work. This is the story it told me.

…and finally

If all else fails take time out in a park