Sonia Livingstone
LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at eepurl.com/cEUi05
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone👨🏫 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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThe UK shouldn’t rush to a social media ban for children under 16 @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone💥New | Reducing online harms requires radical transparency ✍️ @bloggeronpole.bsky.social #OnlineSafety #Regulation #SocialMedia
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone"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!"
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThanks 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
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone🤖 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...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneHaving 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.
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone@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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThe 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...
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone🐦📱 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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneAI 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...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThe 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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneCoram'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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThis 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
- I also joined 30+ EU and US scholars on the DSA in letter debunking Jim Jordan's claims that the Digital Services Act is a censorship law (it's content neutral) and that it censors US speech (it applies only inside the EU) husovec.eu/wp-content/u...
- ✨ 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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneOut 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...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneChildren 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 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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneNEW! #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
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneNEW! #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....
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneX 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, 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...
- In the UK “young people often emphasize environmental issues and a sense of community. In contrast, in Japan, there is a stronger focus on healthcare and AI-driven robots designed to support people” #ToshieTakahashi #AycaAtabey #AI #DigitalFutures4Children blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
- 💡Introducing #PlatformLiteracy . . . ✔We needed a concept to explain #adolescents' hypervigilance to the details of how platforms work. 📌 Read more at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneTomorrow 7 July, Join @pauldolan.bsky.social & I for discussion chaired by brilliant @sonialivingstone.bsky.social re transformative power of Deep Listening & belief systems shaping how we communicate, understand, & disagree. #socialcohesion #polarisation #listening #deeplistening bit.ly/44hGUwT
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThe EU Kids Online network's feedback on the Guidelines for the Protection of Minors Online under the Digital Services Act is now available online: 🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-co... @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, @mariyastoilova.bsky.social #dsa #guidelines #comments #basedonevidence
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone“It’s a sad indictment of our society that we have to make polarised rants in order to get action” says @sonialivingstone.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social on the crisis in #youngpeople’s #mentalhealth & addictive #phone habits: observer.co.uk/culture/book... #anxiousgeneration
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneA lot of perspectives. @sonialivingstone.bsky.social made a resonating observation about how the themes published in 1985 (!) JoC have *many* overlaps with our 2025 interests. But this was one takeaway from a rich panel!
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneHere’s @sonialivingstone.bsky.social making sense in this piece by @tomfaber91.bsky.social on smartphones, young people and all that observer.co.uk/culture/book...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneAmong all the bad news about education - AI, over-assessment, teens not reading any more - it's great to hear that schools, their libraries and students are still quietly doing quite remarkable community-oriented things like this www.cilips.org.uk/love-librari...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneHow much is too much screen time for children under six? 📱 Digital Media Use in Early Childhood by Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social Brian O’Neill Kylie J Stevenson & Donell Halloway @ranaabhyendrasingh.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneCatch up with our #DigitalFutures4Children event on “Teens, sexting and image-based sexual abuse: a child rights approach”. The video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3SZ... The podcast: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneUpcoming event: #Feminism #antifeminism & affective economies of rage 📌 Thurs 5 June 6.30-8pm Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape. 🎫 Join us in-person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone💊 Incels' toxic ideology can radicalize young men & lead to real-world violence. Our newest findings show that the world’s largest incel forum has nearly DOUBLED since our 2022 report on the Incelosphere. It’s time for policymakers to intervene. Learn more ⤵️ buff.ly/harAa6G
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone“Meta documents suggest its users in the European Union could be somewhat insulated from these changes” www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
- Global developers' insights into Child Rights by Design 📢New #DigitalFutures4Children report by Kruakae Pothong and Sonia Livingstone. 🔎What will it take for digital businesses to respect #ChildRights? For #UNDP we asked them… eprints.lse.ac.uk/128187/1/Pot... @MediaLSE @5RightsFound
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneUpdate: The consumer advice center NRW applied for a preliminary injunction against Meta at the Higher Regional Court of Colog. A decision has been announced for tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. Jakob Horn.
- Update: The Hamburg Data Protection Authority sent a "hearing letter" to Meta Platforms Ireland, which could start an urgent procedure under Article 66 GDPR, that ultimately could force Meta to suspend AI training in Germany, the authority confirmed to Sara Brandstätter. See lnkd.in/drMzExhk.%F0...
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstonespeakers incl. Life Lessons Education Beyond Equality @everyonesinvited.bsky.social @sonialivingstone.bsky.social Kim Sylwander Tanya Horeck @craighaslop.bsky.social @emilysetty.bsky.social Andy Phippen @betsymilne.bsky.social @chiarafehr.bsky.social & special guests from Australia Amanda Keddie 2/
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneAre media literacy interventions effective in fighting misinformation? A REA by @sonialivingstone.bsky.social & co. suggests reframing user engagement as more than a cognitive process + focusing on users’ experiences, rather than media content or technology alone ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneThe potential for media literacy to combat misinformation: Results of a rapid evidence assessment -- @nickanstead.bsky.social @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @mariyastoilova.bsky.social ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone📢 Meta has some explaining to do. Meta’s policy changes could enable more dehumanizing & hateful speech on their platforms worldwide. Find out more ⤵️
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneInteresting new research from one of our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded researchers. Suggests use of social media platforms shows no association with loneliness, except Reddit! And indeed the use of WhatsApp is associated with lower loneliness. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneAre tech platforms taking over family life? By Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social and Alexandra Evans / @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone@sonialivingstone.bsky.social and the @5rightsfound.bsky.social have already developed the argument that perfectly suits the text. there is tools with playfull by design. there is no lack of inspiration... playfulbydesign.5rightsfoundation.com
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone‘Not only are platforms the new infrastructure for society, but they are profoundly individualistic’ @sonialivingstone.bsky.social on the ‘Plamformitazion of family life’ blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneAre tech platforms redefining family life? New blog from ASB Speaker @sonialivingstone.bsky.social: how digital tools are shaping parenting and privacy in subtle but far-reaching ways. Read more 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202... #Parenting #Tech #ChildPolicy
- Looking forward to speaking at Tuesday’s International Seminar Cetic.br 20 years about our #DigitalFutures4Children @5Rights and #GlobalKidsOnline research on children’s participation, education and wellbeing. See ceticbr20anos.nic.br for the livestream
- 🤔 In my new blog with Alexandra Evans, we reflect on whether tech platforms are taking over family life, based on a new book: "The Platformization of the Family." 📖 blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202...
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneAI companies are transparently working to embed their technologies in structures of power (military, state, employment, housing, etc...) so that when AIs generate bullshit about/around you ("hallucinations"), the BS ceases to be recognizable as a problem with the AI and becomes a problem *you* have.
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneMay 23rd 2025 UCL registration Care or Control? Regulating Technology, Behaviour and Gender at School @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @andyincornwall.bsky.social @rcecoleman.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @emilysetty.bsky.social @craighaslop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-or-co...
- Reposted by Sonia Livingstone#Adolescence has raised important questions around children’s digital lives. Our #DigitalFuturesforChildren event will discuss the effect of technology on teens: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/... 📅 Tues 20 May 6.30-8pm @jessicaringrose.bsky.social @sarah-gis.bsky.social @sonialivingstone.bsky.social
- 🚸 How can AI respect children’s rights? What does good look like for AI developers and organisations impacting on children's lives? 🗓️29th April 2025 | Online 🕓16:00 to 17:15 (BST) 🔗 Join us tomorrow at the launch: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d61aba... #DigitalFutures4Children
- Reposted by Sonia LivingstoneIf I were to write Antisocial Media today I would be much more critical and Meta would look much more coercive and destructive.
