Ep 47: Preventing harm from social media: an individual approach

For this episode I had to do a last-minute Sunday afternoon dash to the studio, because in my original recording of Zooming Out I’d overlooked the FTC’s response to the complaint against NGL (Not Gonna Lie, an anonymous peer messaging app). It was great to be able to include in the re-take the good news that the regulator not only agreed with the original complaint but added in a few points of its own. Hopefully other app developers will learn from all this when they market anonymity to minors, but you never know …(And by the way, if you want to know more about Fairplay for Kids, who wrote the original complaint, listen to my interview with their CEO Josh Golin in Episode 8.)In Paper Round I also cover social media, looking some research that asked what individual factors contribute to problematic use of Instagram - a great complement to last week’s paper on contextual factors for screen use generally.And if you want to share a movie with your kids that gives another perspective on princess-hood, Glenn brings us a guide on how to enjoy Brave. Have you watched it before? What did you think?Show notesBelgian paper: Silvana Saletti and Stephan van den Broucke, 'Focusing the attention on what truly matters. preventive approaches for problematic instagram use in youth' (2024) 11 Current Addiction Reports 724-35Brave review: https://childrenandmedia.org.au/movie-reviews/movies/braveBrave availability in Australia: https://www.flicks.com.au/movie/brave/Zooming Out details:Complaint by Fairplay for Kids https://fairplayforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NGL_complaint.pdf;FTC media release https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/07/ftc-order-will-ban-ngl-labs-its-founders-offering-anonymous-messaging-apps-kids-under-18-haltFind us on:FacebookInstagramSubstackApple PodcastsSpotifyOR search your favourite listening platform (let me know if it’s not there! – outsidethescreenpod[at]gmail.com)Thanks for listening to Outside the Screen! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.Children and Media Australia (CMA)You can find the Children and Media Australia Know Before You Go service via this link.Then, depending what you’re looking for, you can sort the list or search by title alphabetically, by age suitability, by classification or by date added. All of the reviews are prepared by people with training in child development, and they cover every G and PG title released in Australian cinemas since 2002, as well as selected M-rated movies and some pre-2002 ones that are available on streaming services.Or at this link, you can access Know Before You Load – reviews of game style apps and apps that may appeal to young children. These cover some extra things that are relevant to games, like data collection and gambling-like content.You might also like to sign up for our KBYG Weekly newsletter about the latest reviews, and join the CMA facebook community. Get full access to Outside the Screen Podcast at outsidethescreen.substack.com/subscribe