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Tech Shock - from Parent Zone — 136 episodes
Spring Special Episode 4: Melinda Tankard Reist: ‘A Callous Society?’
1: Natalie Foos: VoiceBox and AI chatbot support for parents
Spring Special Episode 3: Haroon Chowdry: ‘Levelling the Playing Field’
Spring Special Episode 2: Andy Burrows: ‘Towards a Safer Future’
Spring Special Episode 1: Maeve Walsh: ‘Has the Online Safety Act Failed?’
7. How to find friends and alienate people: geolocation, gender, and unhelpful legislation
6. Being ‘literate’ in the age of AI
5. Deepfakes, disinformation, and a trundle towards ‘reality apathy’?
4. Experience AI
3. RSE in the era of nudification apps and AI romance
2. A new gambling levy, and the dark side of the industry
1. "A range of questionable trends and industry practices” – gaming in 2025
10. Everyday Digital – a media literacy programme that works
9. EdTech: “Big Tech in a school uniform”?
8. Violence against women and girls: what’s needed for change?
7. Is tech destroying our attention spans?
6. Family vlogging, young people’s perspectives and the response ‘across the pond’
5. What's next for the Online Safety Act?
4. Schools and emerging tech: a new era of sexual harassment and abuse?
3. Understanding ‘good enough’ parenting and toddlers' tech use
2. Early years digital media literacy: new report highlights significant gaps
1. Time for a change? Talking Child Financial Harms with Adam Groves
7. Season round-up with VoiceBox’s Natalie Foos
6. Digital resilience, wellbeing and the online world
5. AI’s role in mental health support?
4. From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?
3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology
2. Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism
1. The Annual Cyber Survey with Adrienne Katz
Smartphone bans: the professional perspective
Smartphone bans: what are young people saying?
9. Bonus episode - The minimal digital living standard
Smartphone bans for under-16s: the parent perspective
7. Season roundup, with VoiceBox
6. The secrets of search
5. Young people and the emerging gender divide
4. The debate surrounding screen time, with Pete Etchells
3. The ‘wicked problem’ of child financial harms
2. Katie Davis
1. Has media literacy’s time finally come?
7. Sharenting
6. A problem hiding in plain sight?
5. The respectable face of the porn industry?
4. Money muling
3. Romancing the bot
2. The woman behind the Online Safety Act
1. New technologies, new worries?
6. Sarah Drummond
5. Damian Collins
4. What exactly is media literacy?
3. Jonathan Baggaley
2. Nick Poole
1. Does the Online Safety Bill rely on something unworkable?
8. Season Roundup: Are people in the know giving up on the Online Safety Bill?
7. Shift Tok: should you be worried?
6. Is Chat GPT going to scupper online safety legislation before it’s even passed?
5. What’s gone wrong with the Online Safety Bill?
4. Mariya Stoilova
3. Seyi Akiwowo
2. Sanjay Bhandari
1. Lynn Perry
12. Return of the Online Safety Bill
11. Kat Dixon
10. Simeon Yates
9. Natalia Kucirkova
8. Ofcom’s Anna-Sophie Harling and Caroline Cason
7. Aiman El Aman
6. Kira Allman
5. Gay and Roxy Longworth
4. Conference!
3. Sam Gilbert
2. Callum Hood
1. Damon de Ionno
16. Season roundup
15. Faith Rogow
14. Heather Wardle
13. Elly Hanson
12. John Carr
11. Marc Feldman and Natalie Foos
10. Michelle Drouin
9. Frank Kelly
8. Tim Gill
7. Pernille Tranberg
6. Virginia Dignum
5. Joe Miller
4. Lulu Freemont
3. David Zendle
2. Rachel de Souza
1. Charles Kriel
13. Geraldine and Vicki round up the season
12. Caroline Dinenage MP
11. Nejra van Zalk
10. Poppy Wood
9. William Perrin
8. Tracey Follows
7. Olaf Kapella
6. Emily Oster
5. Jonathan Baggaley and Voice Box
4. Carissa Veliz
3. How brain science can help with parenting teens
2. Is social media creating a tipping point for the world?
1. Is AI already taking over?
33: Why is there so much sexual harassment in schools?
32: How is tech changing parenting?
31: Are we punishing children online?
30: Are men monopolising data?
29: How to talk to your children about sex
28: Hacking the Pentagon from teenage bedrooms
27: How students are putting themselves through college by making adult content online
26: Will compulsory relationships and sex education improve children’s lives?
25: Is tech ruining Generation Z?
24: Digital poverty: it’s not all about money
23: Can design make the internet safer?
22: Surveillance capitalism - an idea that won’t stand up?
21: True or False?
20: Bot Detectives
19: Addicted!
18: What about the rest of the world?
17: How can we rescue education post-pandemic?
16: How can we balance children’s right to be online with their right to be safe?
15: Video games: the best thing that ever happened to family life?
14: Reasons to be Cheerful
13: Whatever happened to Digital Inclusion?
12: Remote Learning - How could we be doing it better?
11: The Year of the Screen
10: Are The Anti-vaxxers Winning?
9: What Can Be Done About Online Hate?
8: What kind of world will children face, and how can we prepare them?
7: Should Parents Feel So Guilty?
6: Are There Too Many Men on the Internet?
5: Can the Government Stop Internet Harms?
4: Are Children Being Ripped Off By Online Games?
3: How can the public have more say in the future of the internet?
2: Can age-gating the internet ever work? with John Carr
1: Are Children Creating Porn Online?
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