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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 133 episodes
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone
Latest Episodes
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...
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Season 11
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Episode 9
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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? ...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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7. How to find friends and alienate people: geolocation, gender, and unhelpful legislation
December saw the launch of an international coalition to end violence against women and girls with additional...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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35:27
6. Being ‘literate’ in the age of AI
Amidst a paradigm shift in technology, it looks to be the case that a failure to understand (and use) AI is a failure to prepare for a rapidly approaching future. But plenty of questions remain. How best to support literacies relate...
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Season 11
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Episode 6
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46:03
5. Deepfakes, disinformation, and a trundle towards ‘reality apathy’?
AI technologies are becoming more and more embedded in daily life – in ways that go well beyond smart speakers or nifty thermometers. But this embedding raises lots of questions. Some people have little faith in Big Tech (or the cou...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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