Tech Shock - from Parent Zone

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the Managing Director of Revealing Reality, the organisation researching technology, media and online harms for the DCMS, Ofcom and others. They cover the sending and shar…

Vicki and Geraldine look back on the latest Tech Shock season and talk about how its themes intersect with Parent Zone’s wider work.

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• Why has media literacy become the buzzword of the mo…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the leading expert on media literacy about the need to make the very youngest children aware of how the digital world works.

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• Why start media literacy before …

Vicki and Geraldine talk to a leading researcher about whether children are being groomed to gamble.

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• Why has gambling become so important to gaming?
• Are gambling laws inadequate for the …

Vicki and Geraldine talk to a leading researcher into the effects of pornography about how some of the most sophisticated technology companies on the planet are manipulating human sexuality for profi…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to John Carr, writer, campaigner and adviser to charities and governments, about whether the UK is finally about to see laws to stop children accessing online pornography.

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As Voice Box publishes a report on Munchausen Syndrome by Internet, Vicki and Geraldine speak to the lead author, Natalie Foos, and the world’s foremost expert on the disorder, Dr Marc Feldman.

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We’re obsessed with our phones and we’re obsessed with relationships. Vicki and Geraldine talk to the academic who studies how one is changing the other. 

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• When you’re watching TV and y…

This week’s guest is the lead researcher of a recent report for the Royal Society, The Online Information Environment. Frank Kelly, Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at Cambridge University, ta…

Geraldine talks to Tim Gill, expert on children’s play, about the links between physical play and playing online.

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• What can children learn about navigating the internet from climbing tre…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the Danish writer and think-tanker, Pernille Tranberg, about her work helping children understand why data privacy matters.

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• Why we're all public figures now.
• …

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Virginia Dignum, author of Responsible Artificial Intelligence, about how not to be afraid of robots.

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• What is AI anyway?
• How to design AI for human values whe…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the Founder and CEO of the Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (Washing Tech) about how to bring diverse voices into tech policy.

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• Mark Zuckerbe…

Vicki talks to the Head of Regulation at Tech UK about the possible unintended consequences of the Online Safety Bill, and what to do about online fraud.
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• What might be the unintended c…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the leading researcher into the links between gaming and gambling, Dr David Zendle, about why, increasingly, playing means paying.

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• Are loot boxes in some of …

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza.

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• - Why are young children easily able to access violent pornography?
• - How could PSHE do a bette…

To kick off our latest series, the disinformation expert Dr Charles Kriel talks to Vicki and Geraldine about how yoga mums have been drawn to Covid disinformation and QAnon. 

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• - Why has …

Vicki and Geraldine review podcast highlights from 2021

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• What have we learnt about the Online Safety Bill?
• What will we be talking about next year - and does it have to be the metaverse?
• A…

Vicki talks to Caroline Dinenage MP for Gosport and former Minister at the DCMS about her hopes for the Online Safety Bill and the future of the internet.

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• Is the Online Safety Bill actu…

Nejra van Zalk is a psychologist working in the Dyson School of Engineering at Imperial College, London. Vicki and Geraldine talk to her about the contribution psychologists can make to how we experi…