Ep 51: Your (child's) brain on internet use

An episode of the Outside the Screen Podcast podcast, hosted by Outside the Screen, titled "Ep 51: Your (child's) brain on internet use" was published on October 3, 2024 and runs 34 minutes.

October 3, 2024 ·34m · Outside the Screen Podcast

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Episode Description

This week’s episode comes to you a little late, for reasons explained in the podcast. I hope nobody was inconvenienced.

Paper Round is a big bundle of info from a big paper where a big group of researchers brought together recent evidence about the impact of internet use on our brains. There emerge some interesting and useful ideas about how to maximise the good impacts and minimise the bad.

Glenn reviews one of your cuter koala movies, and then I find myself back on the very firm (for me) ground of food ads regulation. That is, I take you through some changes that are coming in the UK, and that could be a model for other countries.

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Show notes

B-I-I-I-G paper: Joseph Firth et al, ‘From “online brains” to “online lives”: understanding the individualized impacts of Internet use across psychological, cognitive and social dimensions’ (2024) 23(2) World Psychiatry 176-190 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.21188

Blinky Bill The Movie review: https://childrenandmedia.org.au/movie-reviews/movies/blinky-bill-the-movie

Blinky Bill The Movie availability in Australia: https://www.flicks.com.au/movie/blinky-bill-the-movie/

Zooming Out details: OfCom statement https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advertising/regulation-of-less-healthy-food-and-drink-advertising;Draft regulations https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6391db7ed3bf7f1bc7d3962a/draft-advertising-less-healthy-food-definitions-and-exemptions-regulations-2022.pdf;Statement from Labour government https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2024-09-12/hcws93

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