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7. Shift Tok: should you be worried?

Vicki and Geraldine talk to Natalie Foos, Director of Voice Box, about her fascinating report on Reality Shifting, a huge phenomenon (2bn+ views for the #RealityShifting hashtag) involving young people transferring their consciousness to their ‘desired reality’. More than daydreaming or fantasising (its adherents insist), it frequently involves inhabiting a parallel universe - Hogwarts is very popular - and can be so appealing that young people want to leave their ‘current reality’ altogether...

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  Smartphone bans: the professional perspective

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  Smartphone bans: what are young people saying?

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  1. The minimal digital living standard

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  Smartphone bans for under-16s: the parent perspective

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  7. Season roundup, with VoiceBox

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  6. The secrets of search

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  5. Young people and the emerging gender divide

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  4. The debate surrounding screen time, with Pete Etchells

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  3. The ‘wicked problem’ of child financial harms

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  2. Katie Davis

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  1. Has media literacy’s time finally come?

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  7. Sharenting

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  6. A problem hiding in plain sight?

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  5. The respectable face of the porn industry?

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  4. Money muling

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  3. Romancing the bot