Tech Shock - from Parent Zone

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the UK director of Reset about how to fix the online world.

Talking points:

• When it comes to legislating for internet safety, why do parents so often get left out?
• Is all the…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the man responsible for an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes shaping of the Online Safety Bill about whether we’re finally about to get an internet that feels a bit les…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the futurist Tracey Follows, author of The Future of You, about the internet’s potential to undermine our sense of who we are.

Talking points:

• How can we think clearly about…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Olaf Kapella, who has been researching families with younger children for the EU, about why parents matter matter so much to their children’s digital lives.

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Vicki and Geraldine talk to Emily Oster, the New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet and, now, The Family Firm, about how data can help us make better parenting decisions.

Talking points:

• Is it …

As Voice Box publishes its report, Digital wellbeing, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Jonathan Baggaley, Chief Executive of the PSHE Association, and Natalie Foos and Lottie Gimlette of Voice Box about t…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to the author of Privacy is Power about toxic data.

Talking points:

• Are you not getting jobs because of your secret data file?
• What’s wrong with the argument that data collectio…

Vicki and Geraldine ask Dr John Coleman, author of The Teacher And The Teenage Brain, whether recent advances in neuroscience can help parents understand and manage their teenagers’ online lives

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As the Wall St Journal reports that Facebook knew Instagram was making girls unhappy but did nothing, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Charles Arthur, tech journalist and author of Social Warming, a compr…

What is AI exactly? How is it different from the algorithms we know and live with? In the first episode of the new series, Vicki and Geraldine ask Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, …

Vicki and Geraldine discuss the recent Ofsted report into sexual harassment of girls and ask how much is down to what happens online?

Talking points:

- How significant is it that young children are bei…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Professor Victoria Nash, new director of the Oxford Internet Institute.

Is tech undermining parental instinct?
What could the government be doing better when it comes to reg…

Amanda Third of Western Sydney University’s Young and Resilient Research Centre tells Vicki and Geraldine how online safety worries can lead to adults controlling children and young people against th…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Lauren Klein, co-author of Data Feminism, about what’s wrong with data collection, its presentation and ethics.

Talking points:

What doesn’t get counted?

Nobody can fit their…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Leah Jewett of Outspoken Sex Ed.

Talking points:

How to have the ‘porn talk'

What difference has pornography made to the way young people think about sex?

How can parents talk…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Julia Davidson, Professor of Criminology and an expert in cybercrime and online harms, about how easy it is for young people to get drawn into breaking the law online.

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Vicki and Geraldine talk to Lottie Gimlette of Voice Box about their report on Only Fans.

Talking points:

What’s the appeal of Only Fans?
Is this kind of sex work sex positive or peak patriarchy?
How sec…

In the wake of reports of sexual harassment in schools, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Jonathan Baggaley of the PSHE Association about what’s gone wrong.

Talking points:

- Are parents withdrawing children…

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Robert Wigley, author of Born Digital, The Story of a Distracted Generation, about what he sees as the damaging effects of tech on young people.

Talking points:

- Is tech re…