aleesha rodriguez

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

digitalchild.org.au/drawing-tech...
@aleeshajoy.bsky.social

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.

digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...

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👏