Simone van der Hof

"Some claim EU digital law holds back innovation. But there’s nothing innovative about exploiting children to maximize profit. What’s truly groundbreaking is designing apps and games that take children’s rights and well-being seriously."

#gdpr #dsa #avmsd #dfa #digitalfairnessact #childrights | Simone van der Hof What is the role of law in regulating social media’s impact on children? Read my blog post on Media@LSE where I discuss some improvements necessary in EU digital law to better protect children's righ...

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The role of the law in regulating social media’s impact on children - Media@LSE Professor Simone van der Hof of Leiden University details her arguments to the European Parliament’s CULT Committee on the effects of social media on children.

What is the role of law in regulating social media’s impact on children?

Read my blog post on Media@LSE where I discuss some improvements necessary in EU digital law to better protect children's rights and well-being:
blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

This an interesting comparative report on online safety regulations around the world (hat tip to Cesare Pitea) bhr.stern.nyu.edu/publication/...

What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture   / https://betterim...

Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write.

What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

Games Beyond Welcome to the website of the international conference "Games & Game Studies Beyond Postmodernism". The conference will take place at the University of Konstanz, on 4-5 September, 2025. The Call for P...

Interesting CfP for all gamestudies folks out there interested in phenomena like self-referentiality and meta-textuality in games and videogames
>> www.gamesbeyond.org/home <<

PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change!

📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible)

🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=...

❓Reach out if you have any questions

Oh but humor is so important when protesting, even when the cause is serious

This event will explore issues of abuse and harassment amongst youth online. May 20, 2025. London @ioe.bsky.social

The Platformization of the Family: Digital Book Launch - Department of Education Increasingly, digital platforms are woven into the fabric of family life. What does this weaving look like, and how do we research it? Welcome to this digital launch of the book «The Platformization o...

📢 Come to our book launch: The Platformization of the Family

As family life becomes inseparable from technology, what does this mean for relationships?

🗓 Monday 20 Jan
⏰ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CET 📍Online

Register: www.uv.uio.no/iped/english...

Read: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

started a Starter Pack of people with something interesting to say about technology, society and the future -- who else should be here?

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Welkom!

Of op zijn minst muten 😉

Look forward to reading your book. We will be discussing it in a reading group with colleagues.

Book cover

Excited to share that AI Snake Oil is one of Nature's 10 best books of 2024! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The whole first chapter is available online:
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
We hope you find it useful.

Meanwhile targeted ads to people with gambling addiction are rampant - I always thought that is one of the most vile manifestations of surveillance capitalism

The end of a privacy era thanks to @carlykind.bsky.social: The Australian Information Commissioner has agreed to a $50 million payment program as part of a settlement with Meta Platforms, Inc.

www.oaic.gov.au/news/media-c...

Beyond screentime: a 7-day mobile tracking study among college students to disentangle smartphone screentime and content effects on sleep Health professionals and scholars alike consider evening smartphone use an important public health challenge. Existing research on the effects of smartphone usage on sleep has three limitations, na...

Interessant onderzoek v UvA naar slaap en smartphone gebruik: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Grey and white cat looking very intently at me

Feed me #caturday

Faithless Champion Sound Tour 2024 | Great show 🔥🔥🔥

Just received the book proofs from the publisher! So close. Years of work culminating. Wow www.routledge.com/Human-Power-...

Dank je!

Sociale media verbieden lost niets op, zegt hoogleraar. ‘Dwing platformen veilig te zijn voor kinderen’ Sociale media: Australië gaat sociale media verbieden voor kinderen onder de zestien jaar. Slecht idee, vindt Simone van der Hof, hoogleraar recht en digitale technologie. „Je blokkeert een deel van h...

Mijn interview met @nrc.nl over kinderen en social media. Als je kinderen verbiedt op sociale media te komen, blokkeer je een heel deel van hun leven, incl positieve kanten. Het probleem is het ontwerp van die diensten. Dat is niet gezond.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Ga het terugluisteren, was te vroeg voor mij ;)

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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Can you add me 🙏

Bytes of advice: parenting neurodiverse children in the digital world As the digital world continues to blend with the real one, and as the prevalence of neurodiversity increases as well, people, especially parents, may wonder how to navigate the relationship between…

How do neurodiverse children and adolescents experience digital spaces?

Read Hannah Coulstock’s literature review and advice for parents and carers navigating this new environment. #DigitalYouth #Parenting4DigitalFutue

blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...

Door nu in te stemmen, zijn deze bezuinigingen wel degelijk de plannen waar het CDA actief voor kiest.
Letterlijk.

In welke bochten het CU en CDA zich ook wringen, het is een bezuiniging op het hoger onderwijs om belastingkorting mogelijk te maken voor het grote bedrijfsleven, en wat snippers voor het volk.