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Tech Shock - from Parent Zone — 136 episodes

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Spring Special Episode 4: Melinda Tankard Reist: ‘A Callous Society?’

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1: Natalie Foos: VoiceBox and AI chatbot support for parents

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Spring Special Episode 3: Haroon Chowdry: ‘Levelling the Playing Field’

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Spring Special Episode 2: Andy Burrows: ‘Towards a Safer Future’

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Spring Special Episode 1: Maeve Walsh: ‘Has the Online Safety Act Failed?’

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7. How to find friends and alienate people: geolocation, gender, and unhelpful legislation

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6. Being ‘literate’ in the age of AI

8

5. Deepfakes, disinformation, and a trundle towards ‘reality apathy’?

9

4. Experience AI

10

3. RSE in the era of nudification apps and AI romance

11

2. A new gambling levy, and the dark side of the industry

12

1. "A range of questionable trends and industry practices” – gaming in 2025

13

10. Everyday Digital – a media literacy programme that works

14

9. EdTech: “Big Tech in a school uniform”?

15

8. Violence against women and girls: what’s needed for change?

16

7. Is tech destroying our attention spans?

17

6. Family vlogging, young people’s perspectives and the response ‘across the pond’

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5. What's next for the Online Safety Act?

19

4. Schools and emerging tech: a new era of sexual harassment and abuse?

20

3. Understanding ‘good enough’ parenting and toddlers' tech use

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2. Early years digital media literacy: new report highlights significant gaps

22

1. Time for a change? Talking Child Financial Harms with Adam Groves

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7. Season round-up with VoiceBox’s Natalie Foos

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6. Digital resilience, wellbeing and the online world

25

5. AI’s role in mental health support?

26

4. From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?

27

3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology

28

2. Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism

29

1. The Annual Cyber Survey with Adrienne Katz

30

Smartphone bans: the professional perspective

31

Smartphone bans: what are young people saying?

32

9. Bonus episode - The minimal digital living standard

33

Smartphone bans for under-16s: the parent perspective

34

7. Season roundup, with VoiceBox

35

6. The secrets of search

36

5. Young people and the emerging gender divide

37

4. The debate surrounding screen time, with Pete Etchells

38

3. The ‘wicked problem’ of child financial harms

39

2. Katie Davis

40

1. Has media literacy’s time finally come?

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7. Sharenting

42

6. A problem hiding in plain sight?

43

5. The respectable face of the porn industry?

44

4. Money muling

45

3. Romancing the bot

46

2. The woman behind the Online Safety Act

47

1. New technologies, new worries?

48

6. Sarah Drummond

49

5. Damian Collins

50

4. What exactly is media literacy?

51

3. Jonathan Baggaley

52

2. Nick Poole

53

1. Does the Online Safety Bill rely on something unworkable?

54

8. Season Roundup: Are people in the know giving up on the Online Safety Bill?

55

7. Shift Tok: should you be worried?

56

6. Is Chat GPT going to scupper online safety legislation before it’s even passed?

57

5. What’s gone wrong with the Online Safety Bill?

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4. Mariya Stoilova

59

3. Seyi Akiwowo

60

2. Sanjay Bhandari

61

1. Lynn Perry

62

12. Return of the Online Safety Bill

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11. Kat Dixon

64

10. Simeon Yates

65

9. Natalia Kucirkova

66

8. Ofcom’s Anna-Sophie Harling and Caroline Cason

67

7. Aiman El Aman

68

6. Kira Allman

69

5. Gay and Roxy Longworth

70

4. Conference!

71

3. Sam Gilbert

72

2. Callum Hood

73

1. Damon de Ionno

74

16. Season roundup

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15. Faith Rogow

76

14. Heather Wardle

77

13. Elly Hanson

78

12. John Carr

79

11. Marc Feldman and Natalie Foos

80

10. Michelle Drouin

81

9. Frank Kelly

82

8. Tim Gill

83

7. Pernille Tranberg

84

6. Virginia Dignum

85

5. Joe Miller

86

4. Lulu Freemont

87

3. David Zendle

88

2. Rachel de Souza

89

1. Charles Kriel

90

13. Geraldine and Vicki round up the season

91

12. Caroline Dinenage MP

92

11. Nejra van Zalk

93

10. Poppy Wood

94

9. William Perrin

95

8. Tracey Follows

96

7. Olaf Kapella

97

6. Emily Oster

98

5. Jonathan Baggaley and Voice Box

99

4. Carissa Veliz

100

3. How brain science can help with parenting teens

101

2. Is social media creating a tipping point for the world?

102

1. Is AI already taking over?

103

33: Why is there so much sexual harassment in schools?

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32: How is tech changing parenting?

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31: Are we punishing children online?

106

30: Are men monopolising data?

107

29: How to talk to your children about sex

108

28: Hacking the Pentagon from teenage bedrooms

109

27: How students are putting themselves through college by making adult content online

110

26: Will compulsory relationships and sex education improve children’s lives?

111

25: Is tech ruining Generation Z?

112

24: Digital poverty: it’s not all about money

113

23: Can design make the internet safer?

114

22: Surveillance capitalism - an idea that won’t stand up?

115

21: True or False?

116

20: Bot Detectives

117

19: Addicted!

118

18: What about the rest of the world?

119

17: How can we rescue education post-pandemic?

120

16: How can we balance children’s right to be online with their right to be safe?

121

15: Video games: the best thing that ever happened to family life?

122

14: Reasons to be Cheerful

123

13: Whatever happened to Digital Inclusion?

124

12: Remote Learning - How could we be doing it better?

125

11: The Year of the Screen

126

10: Are The Anti-vaxxers Winning?

127

9: What Can Be Done About Online Hate?

128

8: What kind of world will children face, and how can we prepare them?

129

7: Should Parents Feel So Guilty?

130

6: Are There Too Many Men on the Internet?

131

5: Can the Government Stop Internet Harms?

132

4: Are Children Being Ripped Off By Online Games?

133

3: How can the public have more say in the future of the internet?

134

2: Can age-gating the internet ever work? with John Carr

135

1: Are Children Creating Porn Online?

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