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How do we keep our children safe online?

book-cover-bex-400Well, the Guardian should have brought me to this round-table (or at least read my book!):

“We’ve got a generation of parents who simply don’t know what it takes to raise a child in the digital age,” said Vicki Shotbolt, CEO and founder of the Parent Zone. “When you talk to them they say they have no idea what it takes to get it right.” Her feelings were echoed by Allen Scott, managing director of online security company F-Secure, who pointed out that when the internet was first set up, it was assumed it was going to transform business life, not revolutionise parenting. “As a father of four, I’m shocked and amazed at what my kids do on the internet,” he said. “One minute I’m terrified, the next I’m astonished.”

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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