Sonia Livingstone

🚨 And we're live!

Chair @sonialivingstone.bsky.social discussing tension between pedagogy, profit & policy in #EdTech.

📺 Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNG7...

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@5rightsfound.bsky.social #AI #EdTech #childrights #education

Today is #SaferInternetDay
The DIORA study looked at what young people do online and how it makes them feel

The animation below designed with young people turns the findings from the UKRI-funded study into bite-sized practical tips looking at how these experiences shape mental health and wellbeing

Time to move from hype to action, now that AI is already part of childhood - Media@LSE On Safer Internet Day 2026, the EU Kids Online Team detail some of the findings of their new report on children and their use of generative AI.

🌐 On #SaferInternetDay, the #EUKids Online team shares new findings on how children use and think about generative AI 🤖👧🧒 — moving from hype to action.

🔗 Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

#GenerativeAI #Childhood #DigitalSafety @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @mariyastoilova.bsky.social

This new piece by @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social is brilliant - and essential reading on the damage to the social texture that unbounded AI use threatens to do: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit | A discussion 6.30pm Thurs 20 Nov |Sandra El Gemayel Baroness Kidron Julian Sefton-Green Rhys Spence| Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

👨‍🏫 EdTech is transforming education.

Join us next Thursday 6.30pm as Sandra El Gemayel, #BaronessKidron, Julian Sefton-Green & Rhys Spence discuss what a #childrights-respecting, pedagogically-sound vision for #EdTech looks like.

See more 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/edtech
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social

The UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16 | LSE British Politics Australia's ban of social media for under 16s has re-ignited the same debate in the UK. Sonia Livingstone argues that more evidence is needed before such a ban.

The UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Reducing online harms requires radical transparency - LSE Impact A realistic appraisal of social media’s entanglement with US interests and radical transparency are necessary for any regulation to be effective.

💥New | Reducing online harms requires radical transparency

✍️ @bloggeronpole.bsky.social

#OnlineSafety #Regulation #SocialMedia

The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing. All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

"Edtech presents its agenda as apolitical, as a matter of efficiency or smart management, concealing a far more insidious mission: the monetization of teaching and learning, and a labor regime organized around total surveillance."

As a former edtech product designer, I say "Kill it with fire!"

Thanks to everyone who joined our How is Gen Z faring? event & to our wonderful speakers for such thoughtful contributions - @jburnmurdoch.ft.com @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @pravpatalay.bsky.social @emilytanner.bsky.social @careyoppenheim.bsky.social

📺Watch the event + slides: ow.ly/GWP650XHvLe

AI literacy in an unequal world: pitfalls and promises - Media@LSE Can AI literacy deliver? LSE's Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone discuss their latest findings from the DFC project on AI and children’s rights.

🤖 As AI becomes part of kids’ lives, excitement meets concern — about safety, fairness & bias.

🤔 Can AI literacy really empower #children in a digital world?

🌍 Read insights from @mariyastoilova.bsky.social & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social for #GlobalMILWeek2025

🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

Having kids 10 years apart gives me some interesting access to evolving norms. I'm very pleased to see the 5 Cs for media use being used now in the pediatric handouts.
Kudos to @sonialivingstone.bsky.social especially for pushing this forward.

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social spoke at the International Meeting on children’s rights & #AI:

“We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.”

📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7

#ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity

The integration of #AI in children’s lives poses both great opportunities & concerns about safety, fairness & bias.

Can teaching AI literacy empower them to use AI well & safely?

@mariyastoilova.bsky.social & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

YouTube video by LSE World Children’s Day: digital futures for children | LSE Event

🐦📱 Children face new risks online—and new opportunities. Our #WorldChildrensDay panel explored what’s working, what’s not, and what’s urgently needed to protect their rights in digital spaces.

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/UuVKWzdBcL8

🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...

@sonialivingstone.bsky.social

AI literacy in an unequal world: pitfalls and promises - Media@LSE Can AI literacy deliver? LSE's Mariya Stoilova and Professor Sonia Livingstone discuss their latest findings from the DFC project on AI and children’s rights.

AI is becoming a big part of kids’ lives—but it raises questions about safety, fairness, and bias. 🤖

@mariyastoilova.bsky.social & @sonialivingstone.bsky.social explore the pitfalls and promises in their latest Media@LSE blog:
🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

A ring of yellow stars and icons (including a bell, a lock, a magnifying glass, and several with 'no' symbols) on a purple background with binary code overlaid. Text reads: "DIGITAL SERVICES ACT. First report on the most prominent and recurrent systemic risks on very large online platforms."

The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA.

It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them.

More transparency. More accountability.
A safer online space for all.

link.europa.eu/NKM4yd

Coram's third Future of Youth Forum, Digital Futures: From Risk to Response, will take place on Wednesday 8 October, 1.45–7.00pm at Coram, 41 Brunswick Square, London, WC1N 1AZ.

🔗 Book your free place here: www.coram.org.uk/training-and...

💡New #DigitalFutures4Children research just out - A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech: Learning from five UK case studies

⁉️Is #GenAI serving children well at school? Hardly! Our #ChildRights audit is led by Ayca Atabey

🔗https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/our-work/genai-edtech

This letter is important. It is a careful, detailed, scholarly, and accurate explanation of the elements of the DSA and EU law that prevent the DSA from being a "censorship" law in the first place. The list of EU expert signatories is stellar. @hutko.bsky.social @joanbarata.bsky.social

✨ DFC's August newsletter!

1️⃣ RIGHTS. AI launch 16 Sept @ 12-1pm UTC: global South children on GenAI www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/right...

2️⃣ Look out for "A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech"

3️⃣ Blogs by #DigitalFutures4Children
mailchi.mp/5f329b907e01... @5Rights

✨ DFC's August newsletter!

1️⃣ RIGHTS. AI launch 16 Sept @ 12-1pm UTC: global South children on GenAI www.digital-futures-for-children.net/events/right...

2️⃣ Look out for "A child rights audit of GenAI in EdTech"

3️⃣ Blogs by #DigitalFutures4Children
mailchi.mp/5f329b907e01... @5Rights

'Tamed' algorithms and plummeting pornography views: Impact of new online safety rules revealed one month on More than half a million people have signed a petition calling for the Online Safety Act to be repealed, while ministers insist the new rules are a success. One month on, what difference have the cont...

news.sky.com/story/tamed-...

Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.

Out in the open: the US administration’s attempt to undermine the EU Digital Services Act (and other regulations) was evident.

Now it has been elevated to formal policy and goal of diplomatic efforts.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Children and Screens. NEW! #ScreenDeep Host Kris Perry sits down with Sonia Livingstone, OBE, FBA, @sonialivingstone.bsky.social to explore the intersection of children’s rights, online safety, parenting around child media use, #AI design, and public #policy in the digital world.
bit.ly/4fnvefI

NEW! #ScreenDeep Host Kris Perry sits down with @sonialivingstone.bsky.social to explore the intersection of children’s rights, online safety, parenting around child media use, #AI design, and public #policy in the digital world.
Listen now: bit.ly/4fnvefI

NEW! #ScreenDeep Host Kris Perry sits down with Sonia Livingstone, OBE, FBA, @sonialivingstone.bsky.social to explore the intersection of children’s rights, online safety, parenting around child media use, #AI design, and public #policy in the digital world.

Listen NOW: bit.ly/4fnvefI

⚠️ Child Rights Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for a Rights‐Respecting Digital Environment - just published o/a by @Livingstone_S @Kruakae_Noony #DigitalFutures4Children
@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

⚠️ Child Rights Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for a Rights‐Respecting Digital Environment - just published o/a by @Livingstone_S @Kruakae_Noony #DigitalFutures4Children
@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

X has lost its legal battle against Ireland’s Online Safety Code, as the Irish High Court today dismissed the case and affirmed the media regulator’s authority to enforce tougher online safety regulations www.mlex.com/mlex/technol...

Reddit introduces age verification in the UK ahead of new rules The platform will bring in the measures from 14 July to stop under-18s looking at

“Reddit, known for its online communities and discussions, said that while it does not want to know who its audience is: "It would be helpful for our safety efforts to be able to confirm whether you are a child or an adult."”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...