Podcast: Are we punishing children online?
Dr Amanda Third of Western Sydney University’s Young and Resilient Research Centre speaks with Parent Zone about how online safety worries can lead to adults controlling children and young people against their interests.
Throughout the discussion, Dr Third reiterates the need for a holistic approach to keeping children safer online - an approach that the UKCIS digital resilience framework can enable.
She also highlights that whilst children increasingly speak in a ‘double register’ with regards to their online experiences, it is important to normalise conversations around children’s digital lives, and build this into day to day life. Conversations like these - underpinned by the digital resilience framework - can contribute to children’s capacity to learn from their experiences online, understand when they’re at risk, know how to seek help, and get the support they need to recover when something goes wrong.
Talking points
How do we get past the safety dominated way of talking about navigating the internet?
How the focus on online risks potentially takes away from highlighting the benefits of technology
How do we recognise the ‘santa clause effect’ and help children and adults move beyond it?
Is resilience more than just ‘bouncing back’?
User-centred and participatory research - how do you get young people involved in talking about resilience?
Technology is often implicated in young people’s declining mental health. But can it actually be made to help?
Tech ‘addiction’, screen time and socialising - what does it all mean for parents?
“When you talk to children and young people, what they say is that it looks to the adults in their lives like they’re addicted to the technology, but actually they’re addicted to the relationships that they nurture in those spaces”
