Tech Shock - from Parent Zone

Tech Shock: Everything you always wanted to know about tech and family life.Podcasting from Parent Zone,the media literacy experts, host Vicki Shotbolt explores the upsides and downsides of family life in the digital age. With a range of expert guests she looks at online harms to children ranging from pornography to gambling and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrate the many benefits of tech for children and young people, as she considers how best to live in a world in which family life is now inescapably digital.Listen every Monday, subscribe, and give us a five star review.

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Update frequency: every 8 days
Average duration: 40 minutes
Episodes: 124
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

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3: How can the public have more say in the future of the internet?

Legislation is coming in the UK and Europe that could change the internet. But is the public consulted? Not much.

Vicki Shotbolt and Geraldine Bedell talk to Ellen Judson of Demos, who has been resea…

00:32:26 | Mon 02 Nov 2020

2: Can age-gating the internet ever work? with John Carr

Vicki and Geraldine are joined by their very first guest, John Carr, who is, among many other things, Secretary of the Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety, an advisor to the UN, to the…

00:41:07 | Mon 26 Oct 2020

1: Are Children Creating Porn Online?

Welcome to ‘Tech Shock’ – the new podcast from Parent Zone!

Vicki Shotbolt and Geraldine Bedell are your hosts, looking at how digital technology is affecting family life.

They’ll help explain its m…

00:25:31 | Sun 18 Oct 2020