I think 90% of 11 year olds now have a phone and 11 seems young but also I get it. If you want to know where your child is I'm sure I would give my child a phone because it's more for the parent than them at the beginning. Yeah yeah but yeah I was probably 14 or 15 when I kind of truly felt like I was getting involved with the online world so not super early. It shaped my personality in the way I think a lot even coming across social media much later when I was in theory at least an adultBecause I it does train you there's something about it that dictates your behavior rather than the other way around.
Emma Gannon is a true digital native, a storyteller who finds creative inspiration in online communities, and who has sought a more thoughtful way to be in the digital spaces that so dominate our lives.
In this episode, Katherine and Emma discuss what it means to be a digital citizen - the pleasures and the agonies of coming together in the ether, and the ways it can both warp and welcome connection. Emma’s is a nuanced take, emphasising our own agency within social media spaces, and inviting us to be thoughtful and disciplined, rather than reactive and addicted.
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