THINKING
Tanya writes regularly on tech ethics, digital wellbeing, digital detox, Big Tech, screen-life balance, cybersafety, AI, persuasive tech, the attention economy and other topical issues related to the digital world.
What are the dangers for children when AI agrees with them all the time?
There are dangers when AI flatters and agrees with young people all the time.
Children and AI – a new Code
The Children & AI Design Code is aimed at ensuring AI systems respect and protect the rights, safety and well-being of children.
Instagram breaks: 40% as effective as therapy for young women’s mental health
A study shows taking Instagram breaks significantly benefits young women’s mental health.
Children and AI friends
Children are forming relationships with chatbots, which they think of as their AI friends.
Age assurance and online safety
A new report explores attitudes toward online age assurance from both parents and children.
Children, screens and wellbeing: what the latest research tells us
A new EU report brings nuance to questions on the interplay of screens and wellbeing for children’s mental and physical health.
Let’s talk about EdTech
Are parents and schools coming to blows about smartphones and is heavily-marketed EdTech to blame?
Me and Jonathan Haidt
Though we’ve never met, I find myself frequently being asked how my work compares to Jonathan Haidt’s.
‘Adolescence’ exposes the red-pilled world of teen boys online
Netflix drama Adolescence reveals a toxic online world of incel culture, ‘red-pilling’ and misogyny that teen boys must navigate.
BOOKS
Tanya is the author of three books on our complicated relationship with technology:
‘My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open’, ‘Off.’ and ‘Stop Staring at Screens’ are all out now.
My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open
“Highly readable…attainable and realistic ways to reduce technology use and alleviate the burdens it can place on us as individuals and on our relationships.”
OFF: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life
"She presents simple ideas alongside practical suggestions for how to implement them - leaving you inspired and motivated by the end."
Stop Staring at Screens!
"Perhaps the best compliment I can pay this is that as soon as I started reading this, my 13-year-old son started looking over my shoulder, and in short order said, "I want to read this as soon as you're done. And I want to do this."