Media
Blogs, pods and media stuff. Explore my insights.
Television + Talks
A selection of my most recent TV appearances
Q&A Panel – Vivid Festival special ABC TV
The quest for digital superfoods TEDx talk
Social Disconnect Q&A
Apps for overcoming procrastination The Today Show
Podcasts
A selection of podcasts I have been invited to speak on.
Super-foods, the Blame Game and Toxic Positivity
Freedom Matters
Technology is getting a bad rep. In fact, gaming is a super-food, productivity itself is ‘toxic’, and urban geography is more to blame than iPhones when we consider the challenges of society today.
Technology use in the Classroom and the Importance of Curiosity
EduFolio
This week, I’m talking to Jocelyn Brewer. As part of Sydney University’s Cyberpsychology research group, she has been examining the intersection of psychology and technology for over a decade.
So who just won? Australia or Facebook?
Download This Show with Marc Fennell
It was only a week ago when Facebook and the Australian government locked horns over the proposed media bargaining laws and now Facebook has backflipped saying they’ll walk back its block on Australian users sharing news on its site. So is there a winner in this battle?
Big Kids: The War On Screens
Mammia: This glorious mess
“My friends keep telling me how addictive gaming is for teens and that I should get them off the games now! …. Should I? And if I should, how the hell would I?” During the week, we received this listener dilemma and so for today’s episode, we took it to an expert, Jocelyn Brewer, Mother, teacher, writer and psychologist with a specialisation in cyberpsychology.
Fitbit for pets and can Maru stop online bullying?
Download This Show with Marc Fennell
Fitbit for pets and can Maru stop online bullying? Across the world more than half of all girls have been harassed or abused online. Can ‘Maru’, an anti-harassment chatbot help?
The Pebble in the Pond podcast
The Pebble in the Pond podcast
This is a much more open conversation with Sam Stewart, CEO of the Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association. I share how I went from a 17-year-old with hopes of becoming a Vet, to getting mugged by 3 teenage girls at 29 and finding my purpose through taking lots of seemingly disconnected steps.
Low Tox Life: The Podcast
Low Tox Life: The Podcast
It was lovely to be invited to chat with Alexx Stuart and share my guilt-busting tips on how to manage children’s technology use by understanding their online worlds more fully (and without judgy pants on).
The Pineapple Project
The Pineapple Project
I help Jan Fran learn about a tiny but insidious phone habit that can destroy relationships and share new ways to have a good relationship with our smartphones? And it doesn’t involve a detox.
Original Writing
Articles and essays I have written.
The trouble with Screen Time: build your family’s Digital Nutrition instead
FOSI good digital parenting blog
The how-to guide for Indistractability
One Zero, Medium
Could we please stop the panic over social media ‘addiction’?
Junkee
Media Commentary
Insights I have shared for print and online articles.
