Wednesday 18 June 2025 4:00 – 5:30pm AEST
This webinar focuses on the rights of children and the importance and risks of children’s interactions online. Children can benefit a great deal from the expansion of the digital world, particularly through greater access to educational materials and increases in social participation. This is especially the case with children in remote locations whose interactions are often enhanced through online activities. However, there are also dangers. These include violations of privacy and other harms through corporate practices and parental oversight, disinformation/misinformation and propaganda, cyberbullying, and grooming and sexual exploitation.
In this webinar, Professor Tama Leaver (Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child) will focus on the practices of social media companies and breaches of children’s right to privacy including the use of data collected, and the implications of attempts to regulate these companies. Dr Rys Farthing (Director of Children’s Policy at Reset (Australia)) will address the way the digital world impacts on the rights of children in Australia and outline some of the responses in the protection of these rights both domestic and international.
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