For your festive listening pleasure...
06 Jan, 2025
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For your festive listening pleasure...

Season nine of Tech Shock saw some brilliant guests join our host Vicki to explore the ever-evolving digital landscape. 

If you're in need of a little podcast fix over the festive period, we've got seven crackers to soundtrack the cooking, car journeys or however you enjoy your break. 

Click the links below to listen.

The Annual Cyber Survey with Adrienne Katz
Director of Youthworks Adrienne Katz unpacks findings from this year's Annual Cyber Survey and what it's like for young people growing up in the online world – including their tech use, and factors that affect media literacy and resilience.

Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism
Privacy advocate and author Mark Weinstein puts forward his views on user IDs and privacy infringements, as well as surveillance capitalism and behaviour modelling.  

Digital parenting and monitoring technology
Guest experts Ekaterina Hertog and Jun Zhao from the University of Oxford and Netta Weinstein from the University of Reading explain their recent research into monitoring technology, child rights and development. 

From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place? 
Sonia Livingstone, professor at the London School of Economics and Director of the Digital Futures for Children Centre, assesses how well-placed we are to tackle some of the current – and future – challenges posed by the online world. 

AI’s role in mental health support?
As the need for support services continually rises among children and young people, are AI tools and innovations a possible way of coping with demand? In this episode, The Mix CEO Chris Martin helps answer this question. 

Digital resilience, wellbeing and the online world
Professor of Human Behaviour and Technology at the University of Oxford, Andy Przybylski explores the current relevance of digital resilience – as well as what research actually says about how time spent online can impact wellbeing. 

Season round-up with VoiceBox's Natalie Foos 
In the final episode of season 9, Vicki and VoiceBox director Natalie Foos discuss the recent WeProtect global summit and the exciting work in the pipeline for VoiceBox, as well offering up some notable moments from the season just gone. 

 

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