Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
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Episodes: 135
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Tech Shock: everything you ever 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, from pornography to gambling, and at what should be done about them. Incurably optimistic, Vicki also celebrates 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 please give us a five star review.
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1: Natalie Foos: VoiceBox and AI chatbot support for parents
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Spring Special Episode 3: Haroon Chowdry: ‘Levelling the Playing Field’
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Spring Special Episode 2: Andy Burrows: ‘Towards a Safer Future’
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Spring Special Episode 1: Maeve Walsh: ‘Has the Online Safety Act Failed?’
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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7. How to find friends and alienate people: geolocation, gender, and unhelpful legislation
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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6. Being ‘literate’ in the age of AI
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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5. Deepfakes, disinformation, and a trundle towards ‘reality apathy’?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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4. Experience AI
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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3. RSE in the era of nudification apps and AI romance
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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2. A new gambling levy, and the dark side of the industry
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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1. "A range of questionable trends and industry practices” – gaming in 2025
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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10. Everyday Digital – a media literacy programme that works
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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9. EdTech: “Big Tech in a school uniform”?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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8. Violence against women and girls: what’s needed for change?
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May 20, 2025 |
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7. Is tech destroying our attention spans?
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May 06, 2025 |
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6. Family vlogging, young people’s perspectives and the response ‘across the pond’
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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5. What's next for the Online Safety Act?
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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4. Schools and emerging tech: a new era of sexual harassment and abuse?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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3. Understanding ‘good enough’ parenting and toddlers' tech use
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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2. Early years digital media literacy: new report highlights significant gaps
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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1. Time for a change? Talking Child Financial Harms with Adam Groves
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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7. Season round-up with VoiceBox’s Natalie Foos
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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6. Digital resilience, wellbeing and the online world
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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5. AI’s role in mental health support?
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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4. From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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2. Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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1. The Annual Cyber Survey with Adrienne Katz
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Smartphone bans: the professional perspective
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Smartphone bans: what are young people saying?
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May 19, 2024 |
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9. Bonus episode - The minimal digital living standard
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Smartphone bans for under-16s: the parent perspective
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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7. Season roundup, with VoiceBox
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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6. The secrets of search
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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5. Young people and the emerging gender divide
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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4. The debate surrounding screen time, with Pete Etchells
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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3. The ‘wicked problem’ of child financial harms
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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2. Katie Davis
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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1. Has media literacy’s time finally come?
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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7. Sharenting
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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6. A problem hiding in plain sight?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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5. The respectable face of the porn industry?
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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4. Money muling
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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3. Romancing the bot
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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2. The woman behind the Online Safety Act
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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1. New technologies, new worries?
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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6. Sarah Drummond
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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5. Damian Collins
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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4. What exactly is media literacy?
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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3. Jonathan Baggaley
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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2. Nick Poole
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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1. Does the Online Safety Bill rely on something unworkable?
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May 28, 2023 |
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8. Season Roundup: Are people in the know giving up on the Online Safety Bill?
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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7. Shift Tok: should you be worried?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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6. Is Chat GPT going to scupper online safety legislation before it’s even passed?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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5. What’s gone wrong with the Online Safety Bill?
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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4. Mariya Stoilova
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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3. Seyi Akiwowo
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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2. Sanjay Bhandari
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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1. Lynn Perry
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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12. Return of the Online Safety Bill
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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11. Kat Dixon
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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10. Simeon Yates
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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9. Natalia Kucirkova
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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8. Ofcom’s Anna-Sophie Harling and Caroline Cason
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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7. Aiman El Aman
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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6. Kira Allman
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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5. Gay and Roxy Longworth
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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4. Conference!
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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3. Sam Gilbert
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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2. Callum Hood
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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1. Damon de Ionno
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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16. Season roundup
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May 22, 2022 |
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15. Faith Rogow
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May 15, 2022 |
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14. Heather Wardle
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May 08, 2022 |
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13. Elly Hanson
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May 01, 2022 |
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12. John Carr
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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11. Marc Feldman and Natalie Foos
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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10. Michelle Drouin
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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9. Frank Kelly
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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8. Tim Gill
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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7. Pernille Tranberg
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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6. Virginia Dignum
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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5. Joe Miller
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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4. Lulu Freemont
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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3. David Zendle
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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2. Rachel de Souza
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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1. Charles Kriel
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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13. Geraldine and Vicki round up the season
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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12. Caroline Dinenage MP
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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11. Nejra van Zalk
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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10. Poppy Wood
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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9. William Perrin
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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8. Tracey Follows
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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7. Olaf Kapella
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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6. Emily Oster
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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5. Jonathan Baggaley and Voice Box
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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4. Carissa Veliz
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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3. How brain science can help with parenting teens
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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2. Is social media creating a tipping point for the world?
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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1. Is AI already taking over?
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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33: Why is there so much sexual harassment in schools?
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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32: How is tech changing parenting?
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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31: Are we punishing children online?
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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30: Are men monopolising data?
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May 30, 2021 |
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29: How to talk to your children about sex
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May 23, 2021 |
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28: Hacking the Pentagon from teenage bedrooms
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May 16, 2021 |
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27: How students are putting themselves through college by making adult content online
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May 02, 2021 |
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26: Will compulsory relationships and sex education improve children’s lives?
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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25: Is tech ruining Generation Z?
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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24: Digital poverty: it’s not all about money
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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23: Can design make the internet safer?
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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22: Surveillance capitalism - an idea that won’t stand up?
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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21: True or False?
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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20: Bot Detectives
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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19: Addicted!
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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18: What about the rest of the world?
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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17: How can we rescue education post-pandemic?
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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16: How can we balance children’s right to be online with their right to be safe?
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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15: Video games: the best thing that ever happened to family life?
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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14: Reasons to be Cheerful
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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13: Whatever happened to Digital Inclusion?
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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12: Remote Learning - How could we be doing it better?
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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11: The Year of the Screen
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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10: Are The Anti-vaxxers Winning?
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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9: What Can Be Done About Online Hate?
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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8: What kind of world will children face, and how can we prepare them?
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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7: Should Parents Feel So Guilty?
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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6: Are There Too Many Men on the Internet?
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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5: Can the Government Stop Internet Harms?
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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4: Are Children Being Ripped Off By Online Games?
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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3: How can the public have more say in the future of the internet?
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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2: Can age-gating the internet ever work? with John Carr
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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1: Are Children Creating Porn Online?
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Tech Shock - from Parent Zone Trailer
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Oct 11, 2020 |