[MEDIA] Talking ‘How bad is social media for my mental health’ with @BBCRadio4 Beyond Today Podcast

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Earlier today I recorded for the Beyond Today podcast on social media and mental health, and the moral panics that surround technology, when there are many other underlying factors which need far more attention: Listen to the interview   Some related links: Self-harm and social media: a knee-jerk ban on content could actually harm young people Six triggers of stress and depression in children and how you can help Reading the Riots on Twitter (Farida Vis) Suicide rates rise…
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[MEDIA] Beyond Belief: Public Grief for @BBCRadio4

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Last Wednesday I recorded for BBC Radio 4 Beyond Belief, along with Linda Woodhead, Sughra Ahmed, and David Walker, which was aired this afternoon. We were looking at public responses to recent tragedies (Manchester Arena, London Bridge, Grenfall House and Finsbury Park), and whether these were forms of public grief, or whether it was something else. We were asked to think about: How have expressions of  public grief changed? How has this been illustrated in…
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Listening to @BBCWomansHour with @aliciablumross on #DigitalParenting

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I was alerted to this programme about children and screen time, on earlier this week, and have just had the opportunity to catch-up on it. The blurb says: Getting children away from their screens can be a daily battle, but how much more difficult is it in the school holidays? We'll be asking whether it matters that they're attached to their phones, tablets or computer games and whether it's useful to set boundaries about time…
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