Patrick Burton
@patrickburtonsa.bsky.social
🇿🇦 researcher. child online protection, child rights, VAC & VAW, violence prevention. consultant @UNICEF Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Pacific Isles and others.
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Now underway: Launch of SA #ChildGauge2025. The focus of this year's edition is intersections of violence against women and children. Key findings are presented by @lucycpt.bsky.social (editor, Senior Researcher Children's Institute) & Prof Shanaaz Mathews (editor, UCT Health Sciences) #EndViolence
November 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Now underway: Launch of SA #ChildGauge2025. The focus of this year's edition is intersections of violence against women and children. Key findings are presented by @lucycpt.bsky.social (editor, Senior Researcher Children's Institute) & Prof Shanaaz Mathews (editor, UCT Health Sciences) #EndViolence
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Launching Tuesday 4 Nov 📗📊 ‘South African Child Gauge 2025 Intersections of violence against women and children: Disrupting intergenerational harm.’ Tomorrow we release our new research publication #ChildGauge2025, its policy brief and an easy-to-read poster summary of findings & recommendations.
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Launching Tuesday 4 Nov 📗📊 ‘South African Child Gauge 2025 Intersections of violence against women and children: Disrupting intergenerational harm.’ Tomorrow we release our new research publication #ChildGauge2025, its policy brief and an easy-to-read poster summary of findings & recommendations.
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🎮 Gaming offers huge opportunities for kids - but also serious risks.
🇧🇷🇬🇧 New research from the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) maps how the gaming ecosystem shapes children’s experiences in Brazil and the UK.
🔗 https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/130029/
#ChildRights #Gaming
🇧🇷🇬🇧 New research from the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) maps how the gaming ecosystem shapes children’s experiences in Brazil and the UK.
🔗 https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/130029/
#ChildRights #Gaming
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🎮 Gaming offers huge opportunities for kids - but also serious risks.
🇧🇷🇬🇧 New research from the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) maps how the gaming ecosystem shapes children’s experiences in Brazil and the UK.
🔗 https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/130029/
#ChildRights #Gaming
🇧🇷🇬🇧 New research from the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) maps how the gaming ecosystem shapes children’s experiences in Brazil and the UK.
🔗 https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/130029/
#ChildRights #Gaming
At my first event in South Africa for a few years (6!),the launch of the @childrensinstitute.bsky.social Child Gauge 2025, on the Intersections between violence against women and children (I wrote the chapter on schools!). Lovely to see some old friends.
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
At my first event in South Africa for a few years (6!),the launch of the @childrensinstitute.bsky.social Child Gauge 2025, on the Intersections between violence against women and children (I wrote the chapter on schools!). Lovely to see some old friends.
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🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change
Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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'I can see it in your face': the perils of age verification online davidbuckingham.net/2025/08/01/i...
‘I can see it in your face’: the perils of age verification online
As the UK’s Online Safety Act begins to be implemented, some well-established critical questions are arising once again. Will we ever be able to prevent children accessing material that we deem to …
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August 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
'I can see it in your face': the perils of age verification online davidbuckingham.net/2025/08/01/i...
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⚠️ Child Rights Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for a Rights‐Respecting Digital Environment - just published o/a by @Livingstone_S @Kruakae_Noony #DigitalFutures4Children
@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25
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@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25
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August 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
⚠️ Child Rights Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for a Rights‐Respecting Digital Environment - just published o/a by @Livingstone_S @Kruakae_Noony #DigitalFutures4Children
@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....