Latest Medialiteracy Podcast Episodes
5. Joe Miller
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 28, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Founder and CEO of the Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (Washing Tech) about how to bring diverse voices into tech policy. Talking points: Mark Zuckerberg: an Alexander the Great for our times? What’s the problem with legislation to protect con...
4. Lulu Freemont
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 21, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutesVicki talks to the Head of Regulation at Tech UK about the possible unintended consequences of the Online Safety Bill, and what to do about online fraud. Talking points: What might be the unintended consequences of the Online Safety Bill? Will regulation stifle tech innovation in the UK? Ca...
3. David Zendle
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 14, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the leading researcher into the links between gaming and gambling, Dr David Zendle, about why, increasingly, playing means paying. Talking points: Are loot boxes in some of the world’s most popular online games a gateway to gambling for children With billions of do...
2. Rachel de Souza
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - February 07, 2022 00:00 - 48 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza. Talking points: - Why are young children easily able to access violent pornography? - How could PSHE do a better job at countering rape culture? - Why is the energy and enthusiasm of parents not better...
1. Charles Kriel
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - January 31, 2022 00:00 - 42 minutesTo kick off our latest series, the disinformation expert Dr Charles Kriel talks to Vicki and Geraldine about how yoga mums have been drawn to Covid disinformation and QAnon. Talking points: - Why has the far right been so good at drawing in unlikely allies, from churches to natural health pra...
13. Geraldine and Vicki round up the season
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - December 13, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutesVicki and Geraldine review podcast highlights from 2021 Talking points: What have we learnt about the Online Safety Bill? What will we be talking about next year - and does it have to be the metaverse? Are we optimistic looking ahead to 2022? Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow P...
12. Caroline Dinenage MP
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - December 06, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutesVicki talks to Caroline Dinenage MP for Gosport and former Minister at the DCMS about her hopes for the Online Safety Bill and the future of the internet. Talking points: Is the Online Safety Bill actually going to work or will it push children to less safe corners of the digital world? Why h...
12. Caroline Dineage MP
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - December 06, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutesVicki talks to Caroline Dineage MP for Gosport and former Minister at the DCMS about her hopes for the Online Safety Bill and the future of the internet. Talking points: Is the Online Safety Bill actually going to work or will it push children to less safe corners of the digital world? Why ha...
11. Nejra van Zalk
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 29, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutesNejra van Zalk is a psychologist working in the Dyson School of Engineering at Imperial College, London. Vicki and Geraldine talk to her about the contribution psychologists can make to how we experience our online lives. Talking points: How much are we making our own decisions when we're onli...
10. Poppy Wood
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 22, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the UK director of Reset about how to fix the online world. Talking points: When it comes to legislating for internet safety, why do parents so often get left out? Is all the talk about digital literacy fundamentally a kind of victim-blaming? How do we stop online...
9. William Perrin
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 08, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the man responsible for an enormous amount of behind-the-scenes shaping of the Online Safety Bill about whether we’re finally about to get an internet that feels a bit less like the setting for a Mad Max movie. Talking points: Are we about to enter the public healt...
8. Tracey Follows
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - November 01, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the futurist Tracey Follows, author of The Future of You, about the internet’s potential to undermine our sense of who we are. Talking points: How can we think clearly about the future when tech is so full of surprises? Does tech lead to authoritarian governments? ...
7. Olaf Kapella
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 24, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Olaf Kapella, who has been researching families with younger children for the EU, about why parents matter matter so much to their children’s digital lives. Talking points: The research found there were three different ways of dealing with tech and younger children ...
6. Emily Oster
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 17, 2021 23:00 - 36 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Emily Oster, the New York Times bestselling author of Cribsheet and, now, The Family Firm, about how data can help us make better parenting decisions. Talking points: Is it possible to take some of the emotions out of parenting choices? What does data tell us about...
5. Jonathan Baggaley and Voice Box
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 11, 2021 13:00 - 48 minutesAs Voice Box publishes its report, Digital wellbeing, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Jonathan Baggaley, Chief Executive of the PSHE Association, and Natalie Foos and Lottie Gimlette of Voice Box about the highs and lows for young people online. Talking points Given the data on young people and po...
4. Carissa Veliz
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - October 03, 2021 23:00 - 49 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to the author of Privacy is Power about toxic data. Talking points: Are you not getting jobs because of your secret data file? What’s wrong with the argument that data collection doesn’t matter if you’ve got nothing to hide? What links online data brokers with the cr...
3. How brain science can help with parenting teens
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - September 26, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutesVicki and Geraldine ask Dr John Coleman, author of The Teacher And The Teenage Brain, whether recent advances in neuroscience can help parents understand and manage their teenagers’ online lives Talking points: Why carrot may be better than stick The teenage brain - a perfect storm for online...
2. Is social media creating a tipping point for the world?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - September 19, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutesAs the Wall St Journal reports that Facebook knew Instagram was making girls unhappy but did nothing, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Charles Arthur, tech journalist and author of Social Warming, a comprehensive history and analysis of why our relationship with social media is so often dysfunctional...
1. Is AI already taking over?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - September 12, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutesWhat is AI exactly? How is it different from the algorithms we know and live with? In the first episode of the new series, Vicki and Geraldine ask Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, whether we should be panicked? Talking points: Are we guinea pigs for a great AI experiment? I...
CODA (dir. Sian Heder)
Reel Review - September 10, 2021 20:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCODA is a film that doesn't take a lot chances, with it's familiar tropes it doesn't stray from the formula. It's a remake of a 2014 French film, it's a coming of age film about a teenage girl breaking away from her family. Audiences get a teen romance or two, an inspiring teacher, and an uplift...
Podcast477: Remembering Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane in Deadwood, South Dakota
Moving at the Speed of Creativity Podcasts - June 28, 2021 14:26 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWelcome to a special episode of "Moving at the Speed of Creativity," recorded from the Mt Moriah cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota on June 26, 2021. Members of our family went on the "Boot Hill Tours Historical Tour of Deadwood," and I audio recorded the culminating portion at the graveside of b...
33: Why is there so much sexual harassment in schools?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - June 20, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutesVicki and Geraldine discuss the recent Ofsted report into sexual harassment of girls and ask how much is down to what happens online? Talking points: - How significant is it that young children are being exposed to hardcore porn? - Why - apparently - can nothing be done to stop this? - What ca...
32: How is tech changing parenting?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - June 13, 2021 23:00 - 38 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Professor Victoria Nash, new director of the Oxford Internet Institute. Is tech undermining parental instinct? What could the government be doing better when it comes to regulating tech companies? The new Online Safety Bill relies on technical solutions - will they a...
31: Are we punishing children online?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - June 06, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutesAmanda Third of Western Sydney University’s Young and Resilient Research Centre tells Vicki and Geraldine how online safety worries can lead to adults controlling children and young people against their interests. Talking points Is online resilience simply a personal quality? Is it more than ...
30: Are men monopolising data?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 30, 2021 23:00 - 47 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Lauren Klein, co-author of Data Feminism, about what’s wrong with data collection, its presentation and ethics. Talking points: What doesn’t get counted? Nobody can fit their whole self into a form: can datasets ever reflect the way things really are? Are emotion ...
29: How to talk to your children about sex
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 23, 2021 23:00 - 27 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Leah Jewett of Outspoken Sex Ed. Talking points: How to have the ‘porn talk' What difference has pornography made to the way young people think about sex? How can parents talk to boys about consent? Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on so...
28: Hacking the Pentagon from teenage bedrooms
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 16, 2021 23:00 - 44 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Julia Davidson, Professor of Criminology and an expert in cybercrime and online harms, about how easy it is for young people to get drawn into breaking the law online. Talking points: Are all young people vulnerable to being drawn into cybercrime? What kinds of you...
Moxie (dir. Amy Poehler)
Reel Review - May 06, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNetflix's film Moxie brings riot grrrl punk feminism to a whole new generation: music, zines, and voices coming together to make the world a bit better. Is the world ready for riot grrrls to go mainstream?
27: How students are putting themselves through college by making adult content online
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - May 02, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutesVicki and Geraldine talk to Lottie Gimlette of Voice Box about their report on Only Fans. Talking points: What’s the appeal of Only Fans? Is this kind of sex work sex positive or peak patriarchy? How secure is the platform’s age-gating?Is it as straightforward as it seems - or is there groomi...
26: Will compulsory relationships and sex education improve children’s lives?
Tech Shock - from Parent Zone - April 25, 2021 23:00 - 44 minutesIn the wake of reports of sexual harassment in schools, Vicki and Geraldine talk to Jonathan Baggaley of the PSHE Association about what’s gone wrong. Talking points: - Are parents withdrawing children from RSE? - What do we know about sexual harassment in schools? - Pornography: an extreme ...
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