Media

In the News

BBC Wales Live – AI and Porn (BBC, 2023)

France hangs up: Mobile phone ban for schools (Euroactiv, 2018)

BBC X-Ray – Online Sharing (BBC, 2017)

‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online? (The Guardian, 2016)

Podcasts

What Do Parents Know? – Social Media and Sex

Amit Singh Kalley talks to Dr Tamasine Preece, educator and researcher, about social media and the role it plays in sexual identity. We talk about how social media can be used as a good tool for sexual identity exploration, but also how homophobic bullying has increased because of social media. We also discuss the all important issue of consent and when young people should know if consent to sexual activity has or has not been given and we explore how social media has affected the way young people see their own bodies.

The Twilight Show with Nathan Gynn 30-03-22: Boys’ Problems

What is the Problem with Teenage Boys?

– Michael Conroy, founder of Men At Work C.I.C. who train professionals working with boys and young men to facilitate constructive dialogues with them about safety, empathy and respect – for themselves, for their male peers and for women and girls.

– Dr Tamasine Preece, Curriculum Lead for Health and Well-being at a school in Bridgend, freelance consultant and researcher whose research areas are pornography and exploitation, social media, self-harm and suicide.

Adolescent Social Media Use: A Lens of ‘Digital Self-Harm’

This week we are joined by Dr Tamasine Preece. Tamasine talks to us about her research that explored online activities carried out by adolescents and how these can be understood through a lens of digital self-harm. Tamasine discusses hot technology, identity development and talking to children and young people about their social media use.