Ben Lyall is Sociology Research Fellow at Monash University. He joins us to chat about the rise of self-tracking apps for kids, and how one corporation in particular are using branded self-surveillance to sell everyone’s favourite crunchy malted chocolate powder.

Also this week, social media has been busted restricting and censoring eyewitness accounts from Sheikh Jarrah. We reflect on how far social media has come since the optimism of the Arab Spring.

For more info on the Datafied Child, check out Ben’s research into the Milo Champ Squad. We also talked about parenting.digital and Mozilla’s Privacy Not Included.

Stuff we dig:

Listen to what’s happening in Palestine through this Twitter thread of podcasts covering the situation

Our own Josh Nicholas is working on a Twitter account where people can share how long they’ve been separated from their loved ones

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