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12/17/2025 • 35 min

December saw the launch of an international coalition to end violence against women and girls with additional support to tackle online harms. At the same time, debates around the banning of ‘nudification’ apps continue within the UK. Developments like these represent a shared desire to affect change – and for the online world to be a safer place. But amid the A… Play episode

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 t…
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 g…
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 B…
7. Shift Tok: should you be worried?

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