The Brookings Institute reported devastating impacts during the pandemic on students and their ability to learn. In this interview Nicholas Carlisle speaks to Kate Sullivan, a seasoned 7th grade English Language Arts teacher in Durham, North Carolina and asks what [...]
Toxic speech has become an existential challenge for social media platforms, compelling them to invest heavily in the monitoring and removal of hateful content. But what does toxicity really mean? And can we successfully train machines to detect it? In [...]
The release last month of the Facebook papers has led to widespread condemnation of the social media giant. The French newspaper Liberation carried the above photo montage from the mall in Washington DC with the headline "Facebook en panne, Zuckerberg [...]
Since the invention of online gaming, there have been concerns that video games were destroying the mental health of a generation. The WHO’s decision in 2018 to include Gaming Disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has reignited fears [...]
Online bullying and harassment have risen significantly during the pandemic and the numbers are staggering. The most recent Pew Internet Survey found that 25% of Americans were the targets of severe harassment in the past year (defined as stalking, physical threats, [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Val Whiting, a former WNBA player, about her experience of growing up in Delaware and being doxed and trolled for standing up for female athletes online. What was it like going to school in Delaware? We moved [...]
From the very first steps children take online, they enter a vast, unregulated space frequented by people of all ilks and ages, where opportunities abound but dangers also lurk. Nowadays, especially since the Covid health crisis distanced families and pushed [...]
Today is Safer Internet Day when people around the world focus on how to make the Internet a safer, better place for children and teens. Our mission at Power of Zero is to ensure that every young child learns the [...]
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.” So wrote Nelson Mandela in his Long Walk to Freedom. However the newborn’s innate innocence is too easily corroded by the world [...]
By Jacqueline Beauchere, Global Digital Safety Advocate, Microsoft Teens and adults in the Asia-Pacific region reported an uptick in online civility during the COVID-19 global pandemic, results from a new Microsoft research study show. Meanwhile, respondents in Latin America said [...]
Director of the global Power of Zero campaign, Nicholas Carlisle, shares how we can draw on lessons in meaning making from leaders both past and present to build the resilience of children to the challenges created by COVID-19. As COVID-19 [...]
By Jacqueline Beauchere, Global Digital Safety Advocate at Microsoft It’s a new year and a new decade, and teens and adults around the world hope that respect, safety and freedom will define online life in the 2020s, new Microsoft research [...]
One of the less-known effects of digital devices is the impact that they are having upon young eyes. Smartphones, personal computers and tablets all use light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”) to illuminate their screens and these are now larger and more powerful [...]
Natalie Tan at the Dignity School in Kuala Lumpur explains to Nicholas Carlisle how young refugee children use their smartphones to stay in touch with their parents and protect each other from capture. She also talks about the impact of [...]
Sonia Livingstone talks about what she found in co-writing with Alicia Blum-Ross Parenting for a Digital Future which explores how parents imagine the future for their children, including the role of digital technology. Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology at LSE’s Department [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Alexa Scher, a clinical psychologist based in Johannesburg. South Africa faces a stark digital divide, with only 56.2% of the population online (Internet World Stats, 2019). Most children value the Internet for learning purposes but rarely use [...]
