🆕Just launched: #digital #technologies and #MentalHealth #vulnerabilities in #adolescence 👀Watch discussion: fb.watch/9VxHz3obY-/ ⬇️Full report: eprints.lse.ac.uk/112931/ ✨Blog: bit.ly/15Dec-blog w LSE Media & Communications CO:RE H2020 🇪🇺 ExPAND Research Group @ King's College London 🧠🚸 Sonia Livingstone LSE

New on ABC Education - Using screens can affect a child's physical health and development, but that doesn't mean screens are bad by Leon Straker and Juliana Zabatiero (she/her) abc.net.au/education/how-… Curtin Media #digitaltechnologies #health

Jonathan Potter introducing us to Emotionography QUT ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child

How can we talk with children about finding ways to balance their digital media use? We hope these Stories by Digital Children, co-written with children aged 5-12, will spark conversations between families, and between educators and children. Find the books at… 1/2

‘I have been ground down’: about 50% of Australian principals and other school leaders are thinking of quitting. Read the latest from Fellow Dist. Prof Herb Marsh and colleagues 🔽 theconversation.com/i-have-been-gr… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand #socialsciences

Today ARC Executive Directors, Profs Gauja and Ross, attended the launch of the partnership between ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child & UNICEF Australia. This collaboration will amplify the Centre’s cutting-edge research to improve the digital world for 🇦🇺 children. More: digitalchild.org.au/digital-child-…

As well as opportunities, there are risks. Important paper ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child UNICEF Australia

"the evidence for banning mobile phones in schools is weak and inconclusive" #MarilynCampbell #ElizabethEdwards QUT 4 studies "a slight improvement in academic achievement " esp. for disadvantaged students; 3 studies reported no benefit. blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digi… #MobileBan #P4DF

A massive congratulations to the #DigitalChild team who contributed to the report, including Susan Danby, Daniel Johnson , Simon Smith, Lisa Kervin, Professor Karen Murcia, Maryanne Theobald, Janelle MacKenzie, Manesha A., Ella Horton, Philippa Amery, Madison Klarkowski, and Kim Balnaves.

You can read about the QUT case study in more detail on our website where Daniel Johnson talks about involving #children as co-researchers Australian Research Council #digitalchild #digitaltechnologies #gaming #digitalwellbeing digitalchild.org.au/are-video-game…

Thank you to Prof Susan Danby & Lisa Walker from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child for visiting Strathclyde Institute of Education & meeting our students & staff today. Sorry to all our online contributors for missing the photo; you were logged off before we decided to do a picture 🙈. Such food for thought! 🤔🥳

🚀 Lauch: Digital Media Use in Early Childhood 📖 based on 3-year research examining the realities of under 6 year-olds' experiences of digital technologies in the UK & Australia digital-futures-for-children.net/book-launch #DigitalFutures4Children 5Rights Foundation LSE Media & Communications LSE Sonia Livingstone

Prof Anne Looney introduces Susan Danby presenting on the Everyday for Children: being seen and heard in a digital world. Challenging us think about children as competent interactors and as producers not consumers in a digital world Anne Looney DCU Institute of Education Dublin City University

The last thing RB1 the robot expected when she walked into the living room was for her robot-sister Mandy to be missing! Now, RB1 must not only embark on an adventure of her own to find Mandy, but she must also learn to branch out and try new things. digitalchild.org.au/stories-by-dig…

We are hosting Christopher Leyland (Newcastle University Applied Linguistics & Communication at Newcastle @MARG_ncl Newcastle University) tomorrow for a research seminar organized by the SOLD research environment at Mälardalens universitet. The event will take place in Västerås & you can also attend online(DM/email me for the link)

Do smartphones really cause mental illness among adolescents? Ten problems with Jonathan Haidt’s book #DigitalParenting #ScreenTime #MentalHealth #Adolescence #evidence Source: Parenting for a Digital Future search.app/5mtYKbxowzuowM…

May 17 is the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination! Today we display rainbows to build #lgbtqia+ inclusion, raise awareness, and stand against discrimination 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #IDAHOBIT Minus18

Led by QUT and Prof Susan Danby, the ARC Centre of Excellence for ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child investigates children’s digital practices to inform 🇦🇺 policy, and develop programs and guidelines for children, families, educators and technology developers. More: arc.gov.au/news-publicati…

The outcome of public consultation on the Online Safety Determination is out! We're delighted that this update explicitly includes the best interests of children as a primary consideration for services likely to be accessed by children #onlinesafety #digitaltechnology

Over seventy people gathered in Canberra today for our inaugural Digital Childhoods Summit. The Digital Childhoods Summit is concerned with children's wellbeing and safety within the digital world. #digitaltechnologies #digitalwellbeing #children digitalchild.org.au/inaugural-digi…