Good opinion piece by Kate Emery in The Nightly riffing off the research on children and generative AI tools Suzanne Srdarov and I presented at the @digitalchild symposium last week:
The worrying ways AI is teaching your kids about race
https://thenightly.com.au/opinion/kate-emery-the-worrying-ways-ai-is-teaching-your-kids-about-race--c-17834111 #generativeAI #digitalchild
This paper is part of a collection reflecting on the past, present & futures of research on children & media as the Journal of Children & Media reaches its 18th birthday. This entire rich collection is currently #freetoread online:
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rchm20/collections/Coming-of-age-with-children-and-media #childrenandmedia #digitalchild
I've got a new piece in the The Conversation today looking at Instagram's new Teen Accounts, which are a welcome improvement, but I'm not keen on framing these changes as giving parents 'peace of mind' (that actually requires open lines of communication between teens and trusted adults!). #Instagram #Meta #DigitalChild
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