Photo credit: me, taken from our ‘temple view’ room the morning after the heaviest snowfall for 100 years.
A bit of a longer episode today, as Paper Round deals with a very broad systematic review on sharenting and Zooming Out covers the question du jour in Australia: what is this new legislation on social media in Australia, and what does it do? All is revealed. (Well, the important bits, according to me.)
Sharenting is the habitual online sharing, by parents, of pictures and information about children and young people. Research about it is obviously in its early developmental stages, but a systematic review at least draws out some themes and prompts us to ask some helpful questions about our own practices.
Then we get a review of an Eddie Murphy movie that could be a great entertainment, at least for children 7 and over; and even if they’re younger as long as you’re willing to co-watch and have a chat afterwards.
Finally I try to summarise the main points of the new Australian legislation giving (some) social media companies an obligation to try to avoid giving an account to anybody under 16. I also identify where I think some of the discourse about the legislation has gone off the rails. Hopefully we can all join together for an informed and constructive discussion in the remaining year before the amendments come into effect.
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Show notes
UK/Turkish paper: Sule Betul Tosuntas and Mark D Griffiths, ‘Sharenting: A systematic review of the empirical literature’ (2024) 16 Journal of Family Theory & Review 525-562 DOI: 10.1111/jftr.12566
Imagine That review: https://childrenandmedia.org.au/movie-reviews/movies/imagine-that
Imagine That availability in Australia: https://www.flicks.com.au/movie/imagine-that/
Zooming Out details: all the info you could dream of here – if pressed for time I suggest starting with the Explanatory Memoranda. The lightning submission I wrote on behalf of CMA is here.
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