Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
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.
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
Latest Episodes
Spring Special Episode 4: Melinda Tankard Reist: ‘A Callous Society?’
In the final episode of Tech Shock's Spring Special Series on the social media ban and government consultation, Vicki is joined by Melinda Tankard Reist. Melinda is the Movement Director of Collective Shout, a grassroots campaigning movement ag...
1: Natalie Foos: VoiceBox and AI chatbot support for parents
In the first episode of Tech Shock's 12th season, Vicki is joined by Natalie Foos, Director of VoiceBox — a global youth organisation that surfaces the lived experience of young people for decision makers. VoiceBox has long acted as an early wa...
Spring Special Episode 3: Haroon Chowdry: ‘Levelling the Playing Field’
This week in our special episodes examining the arguments for and against the social media ban, Vicki speaks to Haroon Chowdry, Chief Executive of the Centre for Young Lives.The Centre for Young Lives was set up by Baroness Anne Longfiel...
Spring Special Episode 2: Andy Burrows: ‘Towards a Safer Future’
As we continue our special series of Tech Shock exploring arguments for and against the social media ban and the government consultation, this week we are joined by Andy Burrows, CEO of the Molly Rose Foundation. The Foundation work...
Spring Special Episode 1: Maeve Walsh: ‘Has the Online Safety Act Failed?’
The beginning of March saw the government launch its consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s, as well as calling on the public to share opinions and concerns on more nuanced interventions. But how did we get here? ...
