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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 110 episodes
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
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3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology
The use of technology to assist with parenting is something that’s becoming a social norm. It's easy to understand why: parents want to know what their children are doing online, where they are when they're out of sight and what digital content...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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39:43
2. Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism
Surveillance capitalism – the gathering, analysis and use of personal information to influence people and sell things – arguably requires losses in (or infringements on) privacy to work best. At the same time, anonymity online can b...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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48:28
The Annual Cyber Survey with Adrienne Katz
Tech Shock returns for its 9th season and we invite a range of expert guests to explore the tech landscape post-Online Safety Act – as well as emerging trends and possible harms.Our first guest this season is director of Youthworks Adrie...
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37:25
Smartphone bans: the professional perspective
Just two weeks ago a report from The Education Select Committee recommended that, post-election, the new government consider additional measures around screen time – and smartphone use – for children. Having previously heard from bo...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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49:43
Smartphone bans: what are young people saying?
Part two of this Tech Shock special discusses the possibility – and possible impact – of a smartphone ban for under-16s. Having previously heard from parents, this week Vicki is joined by Anna Lindsay from youth-content platform Voi...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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28:01
