Headstart Online Resilience Podcast Louisa Street

In this episode, Andy and I chat to Johnny Hunt - sex education specialist and senior lecturer in childhood and youth studies. We talk about a range of issues related to sex education and the digital world, including what young people want to know about, what parents and professionals need to know to have conversations about sex with young people and how to discuss the nuance around consent and related subjects.



Johnny mentions a number of resources, the Hedge Porn article is here: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/hedge-porn-stories-vanish-historical-records-1525771

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1n9Jly3CQ8

https://theconversation.com/how-to-have-sex-why-using-films-to-teach-about-consent-risks-misunderstandings-224677

In this episode Andy and I continue our series of chatting with people from across the Online Harms world. Today we talk to Georgia Street (no relation), from the Revenge Porn Helpline and the Professionals Online Safety Helpline, both run by South West Grid for Learning.



If you want to get in touch with either helplines, their details are below:

Revenge Porn Helpline: call 0345 6000 459 or email help@revengepornhelpline.org.uk



Professionals Online Safety Helpline: call 0344 381 4772 or email helpline@saferinternet.org.uk

In this episode, Andy and I chat with Ken Corish about Project Evolve.

Ken mentions a couple of reports which you might want to check out:

Ofcom - Online Nation Report, 2023

Department for Education - Generative AI in Education

In this episode we give our usual brand of straight forward harm reduction advice, this time about gaming. We talk about managing frustration, how worried you should really be about gaming with strangers and whether there's any truth in the idea that staring at a screen will give you square eyes.

If you have any questions about the Digital Resilience project, you can contact me or Andy:

Louisa - louisa.street@packshare.org

Andy - aphippen1@bournemouth.ac.uk

In this episode we discuss the pervasive belief that your phone is listening to you - we tell exactly why your phone doesn't need to listen to you, and give you some tips if you find yourself constantly telling other people that their phones aren't listening to them!

In this episode we talk about responding to online hate and conspiracy theories using the harm reduction approach.

I mention an article in the Conversation which suggests a number of ways to challenge people who believe in conspiracy theories in a supportive way. You can find it here.

I also mention an episode of one of my favourite podcasts: Revisionist History, which is highly recommended if you want to brush up on your debating skills.

Andy talks about a great article by Emily Setty about online misogyny influencers which you can read here.

And finally Andy also mentions a book called The Other Pandemic.