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LSE prof @MediaLSE | Children's digital experiences and rights | evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at eepurl.com/cEUi05
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Assessing the early effects of Australia’s Social Media Minimum Age Act on adolescent social media use

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By Sonia Livingstone
| The BMJ Verified
Sonia Livingstone, professor of social psychology Author affiliations Australia has caught the world’s attention by banning social media for children under 16. Although this is commonly phrased as banning children from accessing social media, in Australia, as in most countries where a ban is under discussion, the force of the law applies to social media platforms, which must prevent children from creating accounts.
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Technology mediation in child sexual exploitation and abuse in Africa and Asia

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By Sakshi Ghai, Matti Vuorre, Daniel Kardefelt-Winther, Amanda Ferguson, Sebastian Kurten, Sonia Livingstone, Andrew K. Przybylski, Amy C Orben
| Nature Verified
Abstract As digital access expands rapidly among children worldwide, technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), including online grooming, sexual solicitation, non-consensual image sharing and sexual extortion, has emerged as urgent yet underexamined category of digital harms1. Despite growing policy attention to online safety, evidence remains limited, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where most of the world’s children live2.
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The Case Against School Cell Phone Bans

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By Sonia Livingstone
| JAMA Network Verified
Is a cell phone like a knife or a pen? Knives have little educational potential (although crafters would disagree) and considerable capacity to harm; hence, schools ban them. A pen has traditionally been required of school students for learning and does little harm, although as a child, I doodled my way through dull classes and wrote secret messages to other kids, not all of them kind.
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