Media academic 📱 📚 | Dad👨👧| Gardener 🍀🌸🌴 | Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka
Alex Beattie
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Not all #neurodivergent kids are orchids waiting for perfect conditions. I propose a diff metaphor from Aotearoa NZ: ‘mingimingi’: wind-shaped, dense with life, making habitat in hard places. www.savingscreentime.com/blog/mingimi... @adhdneurodivergent.bsky.social @neurodivergentplus.bsky.social
But banning platforms doesn’t eliminate risk. It may push youth toward less regulated, more opaque corners of the internet — where surveillance is lower, but harm can be higher.
Like Victorian-era reforms, today’s restrictions are driven by a desire to restore order, discipline, and innocence — especially around how young people communicate, express emotion, and form relationships online.
We need to ask:
Who gets to decide what “safe” digital life looks like?
Whose values are being protected?
And what kinds of youth expression are being silenced in the name of care?
The Screen Time Tightrope: Too Much, Not Enough www.savingscreentime.com/blog/the-scr...
These policies often frame youth screen time as a threat to mental health, attention, and social development. But beneath the surface is a deeper anxiety: that digital life is eroding traditional values and norms.
This isn’t just about tech policy — it’s about cultural power, moral authority, and the future of digital freedom.
Read the full piece here:
🔗 theconversation.com/as-social-me...
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🚨 New article out in @theconversation.com:
As age restrictions on social media spread globally, we may be witnessing the rise of a Victorian internet — one shaped by moral panic, not just child protection.
🔗 theconversation.com/as-social-me...
Long weekend coming up!! Will you doomscroll or keep working? Get a screen time horoscope and look into your future... www.savingscreentime.com/tools/screen... @katemannell.bsky.social @binarythis.bsky.social @digitalchildau.bsky.social @maxsoar.bsky.social @courtneyaddison.bsky.social
