How is family life being ‘platformized’ and why does it matter?  - Digital Child Last year, a group of researchers across the UK, Europe, and Australia came together to set out a research agenda for studying the platformization of family life.

Delighted to share that our new book ‘The platformization of the family: Towards a research agenda’ is out! Blog post here with more details and a link to the book (it’s open access): digitalchild.org.au/how-is-famil...

What do children want from future digital technologies?

A recent Digital Child project sought to understand how Australian and South Korean children between ages 6 and 8 envision digital technologies of the future

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Responding to the Online Safety Amendment Bill 2024 Social Media Minimum Age

140 Experts say banning people under 16 from social media won't make social media safe

children have a right to be online and have fun, positive, educational, and safe experiences.

We should be enabling Australian children and teens to be full, articulate, deeply literate digital citizens.

It's been really heartening working with @dezuanni.bsky.social, @aleeshajoy.bsky.social and Amanda Levido to produce the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child's response to the Social Media Ban for Under16s Bill that was tabled yesterday.

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Principles for a Better Children's Internet - Digital Child A set of actionable principles for creating a better internet for young children that looks after their wellbeing.

And great news, here are 17 actionable recommendations, that are ready to go, on how we do that 👉 digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...

Australia’s dummy spit over kids on social media isn’t the answer. We need an internet for children | Aleesha Rodriguez The ban is a distraction from the need to develop of high-quality experiences online for children of different ages

Children are growing up in a digital society. So excluding children and young people is not the answer; supporting the development of high-quality online experiences for children and young people is 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Say it louder for the folks in the back 📣 the Australian Government's tabled bill to ban children from social media is 👏not👏the👏solution👏you👏are👏looking👏for👏