'Digital platforms could play an active role in enhancing child online protection, including facilitating connections to child helplines and similar services, and enabling digital spaces to serve as gateways to safety and assistance.' www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cyb...

When you find your niche www.olleewatch.com

More Than Robots December edition is out now. A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro... Featuring @demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more

Interruption resets the brain’s recovery process. Multitasking keeps that process from finishing. Digital interruptions arrive faster than the brain can recover, so clarity never fully stabilizes.' how protecting recovery moments will be even harder in #XR environments lnkd.in/eNEvfrmV

Agency’ must be a front runner to be the word of 2026

Children and parents’ financial skills and confidence are closely linked. What system changes might help enhance parents’ digital financial capability? parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul... #childfinancialharms

2017: 'Perhaps our best defence against the dark arts of the robots is dance...and poetry and comedy and art.' medium.com/@cliffmannin... 2025: 'Hand–crafted adversarial poems can alter refusal behavior in large language models.' arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304 so it goes... #AI

📱Do you have a tracking app for your teen? It may have a bigger impact than you think. For young people, it can feel like a breach of trust and an invasion of their privacy. For parents, what begins as a desire for safety can be exploited by technology and become a form of control. 🧵

Talk:Tech from Parent Zone is designed to make it possible for any young person to describe what they are doing online. The resources have been co-designed to support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech/about

Vagina #museum fundraiser All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

It's #onlinesafety newsletter day: if you don't subscribe, you can read it in full below. Just don't forget to sign up to receive the next instalment direct.😉 #onlinesafetyact mailchi.mp/9755825a6fb9...

'motonormativity- the cognitive and cultural bias that normalizes car dominance while obscuring its harms.' urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/rethinking...

'nearly one in five children(18%) said they had been a victim of violence, one in eight (13%) admitted to carrying out violence themselves, and half (50%) told us they had witnessed violence being committed against someone else.' @youthendowmentfund.org.uk youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...

'Almost a third of users in each group said that they had purchased something as a result of the #ASMR or self-improvement content they had seen (29% and 32%, respectively). ' www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

🚨ICYMI: Have you seen our latest data commentary exploring how digital technologies are shaping young people's experiences of growing up? Hint: it's a more complicated picture than headlines suggest. We spotlighted three key charts in this thread. Dive into the data and read the analysis

More Than Robots November edition, is available now Featuring @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @revealingreality.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and more www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

📣Closing this week: We're hiring an Associate Director to lead our Emerging Technology & Industry Practice research domain. It's an exciting time to join Ada as we begin our new strategy period. Deadline: 23:59 GMT, 16 November 2025. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associat...

Day 2 at our EGX FamilyGamingZone was so busy and so much fun helping families find great games. Questions answered on Switch 2 Game Chat and Game Share. See you tomorrow?

We are bringing our biggest ever Family Gaming Zone back to EGX! South Hall S1680. Over 100 games to choose from with experts on hand to suggest titles, explain PEGI and parental controls for consoles, Roblox and PC. www.familygamingdatabase.com/Family+Gamin... See you there? Shares welcome.

“[My social worker was] at the end of my driveway while I was, like, in the porch. It was weird.” (Aged 16) covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...

‘AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.’ pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

More Than Robots - October edition - is available now. A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between. www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

‘AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:’ @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

ShopGPT. What could possibly go wrong www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/co...

So it goes… www.techpolicy.press/the-internet...

Talking about life online can be challenging for any young person. Having speech, language and communication needs ( #SLCN ) adds complexity. Talk:Tech is a range of visual and spoken resources to support conversations about digital. parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech

ICYMI: September's More Than Robots features stats, fakes, pre-bunking, power, media and financial literacies and opinions on all things youth / digital / equity www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

There is a clear link between a child’s and their parents’ financial capability. Parents' digital financial capability needs to be improved, but this alone will not improve children's outcomes. Strategic parenting support is also needed. parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul...

The myth of sovereign AI a handful of American and Chinese tech firms control the #AI infrastructure — from chips and large language models to cloud services and data centers. restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

Celebrate with us! Our biggest @officialpax.bsky.social Family Gaming Room: 🕹️ 100s PS5/Xbox/Switch games ♿ Accessible Tech from Respawn 🔥 Games from @wholesomegames.com 🎯 Parental controls and @esrb.org explainer sessions ✏️ So many Guestbook comments www.familygamingdatabase.com/search/list/...

[There is a] need to develop resources that address the identified skills gap for parents with low levels of digital inclusion in what to do when encountering challenges to their children’s online safety. www.gov.uk/government/p...

More Than Robots - September edition is available now A ramble around the youth/digital/equity Venn in too big new school shoes www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

‘Perpetrators may initially engage boys through shared gaming interests, offer virtual gifts or game loot’ Increases in child online sexual extortion among boys may be facilitated by digital goods in gaming and gifting that can’t be easily rejected or switched off. www.thorn.org/blog/2024-yo...

‘These are not distant problems. Warning signs are already appearing in the UK and other countries. This signals a dangerous vulnerability to similar outbreaks of organized digital violence.’ The Anatomy of the South Korean Deepfake Crisis www.linkedin.com/posts/adgrov...

Back from leave - what did I miss?

‘Scam compounds in Myanmar may have more than doubled their use of Starlink after Thailand cut off their internet access in May 2024.’ Welcome to the future. mailchi.mp/restofworld/...

Never mind the socialweb... here comes the neuro-web 'Given the risks around neurotechnology, society cannot afford to repeat the failures of before.' www.unicef.org/innocenti/re... #MoreThanRobots

We’re delighted to launch #EverydayDigital - the product that helps parents develop media literacy skills for everyday life. Want to help parents protect themselves from disinformation or scams? Buy and access engaging resources to use in your work: parentzone.org.uk/everydaydigital

Media literacy – particularly for parents – is finally getting the attention it needs. How this will be delivered is the critical next step. What we can say is that without “long-term strategic vision” successful delivery remains unlikely. Read more: committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

Stark statistics from @cfyounglives.bsky.social on the scale and scope of child vulnerability and poverty - increases across the board... www.centreforyounglives.org.uk/news-centre/...

'parents need targeted resources to help them reinforce media literacy education at home while improving their own skills in this area.' Lots to unpack in the new @houseoflords.parliament.uk report on #MediaLiteracy publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

If we designed products and services to reduce online harm or support people when they experience it, what might this look like? @rufflemuffin.bsky.social explores how design patterns could reduce #ChildFinancialHarms parentzone.org.uk/article/desi...

The Early years foundation stage statutory framework has been updated but where is the consideration for digital media literacy? As our @nuffieldfoundation.org supported review found, there's significant gaps between guidance, research and families everyday lives parentzone.org.uk/article/supp...

ICYMI: More Than Robots - July edition is out now A ramble around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all shady stops in between www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...

🚨 New funding opportunity: Smart Data Research UK Fellowships Today, we're pre-announcing the SDR UK Fellowships, offering UK-based researchers up to £200,000 (FEC) to undertake innovative research. Sign up for our webinar on 29 July: bit.ly/4lBrQQh.

‘Talking, debating, arguing - it’s the way you can help your child process what they’re seeing online. It’s not always comfortable or easy but has to be part of family life otherwise you’re leaving the internet to form their world view and that’s a terrible idea’ parentzone.org.uk/article/digi...

Young learners in England are facing a deepening crisis. Our Annual Report shows that disadvantaged five-year-olds are falling further behind their peers — and for children with SEND, the learning gap has widened to over 20 months, the widest gap on record 🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'Young people told us they often see scam posts on social media offering "quick cash" or bank transfers, especially on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat.' NEW @childrenssociety.bsky.social report on financial exploitation: www.childrenssociety.org.uk/information/...

Media literacy and digital inclusion can and should be key components of early years education. The ‪@eyalliance.bsky.social‬ essay collection #NoChildLeftBehind explores the changes needed to create a fairer, more equal early years system. Read now: bit.ly/EYAessaysNCLB