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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@sonialivingstone.bsky.social spoke at the International Meeting on children’s rights & #AI:
“We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.”
📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7
#ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity
“We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.”
📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7
#ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social spoke at the International Meeting on children’s rights & #AI:
“We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.”
📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7
#ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity
“We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.”
📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7
#ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity
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In this #OpenAccess paper, Jessica Bezek et al. investigate unique profiles of resilience in a relatively large sample of adolescents exposed to moderate to severe neighborhood disadvantage.
Read the full paper to learn more! https://bit.ly/3L7Mkn1
Read the full paper to learn more! https://bit.ly/3L7Mkn1
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Examining resilience to adversity across multiple behavioral domains (e.g., psychological well-being, social functioning) can better characterize positive development and inform novel pre...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In this #OpenAccess paper, Jessica Bezek et al. investigate unique profiles of resilience in a relatively large sample of adolescents exposed to moderate to severe neighborhood disadvantage.
Read the full paper to learn more! https://bit.ly/3L7Mkn1
Read the full paper to learn more! https://bit.ly/3L7Mkn1
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🐦📱 Children face new risks online—and new opportunities. Our #WorldChildrensDay panel explored what’s working, what’s not, and what’s urgently needed to protect their rights in digital spaces.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/UuVKWzdBcL8
🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/UuVKWzdBcL8
🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
World Children’s Day: digital futures for children | LSE Event
YouTube video by LSE
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November 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🐦📱 Children face new risks online—and new opportunities. Our #WorldChildrensDay panel explored what’s working, what’s not, and what’s urgently needed to protect their rights in digital spaces.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/UuVKWzdBcL8
🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/UuVKWzdBcL8
🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i...
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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What actions are necessary to work effectively at the intersections of violence against women and violence against children? Read more of the #ChildGauge2025 recommendations in the full research publication or the policy brief: bit.ly/4oqDxv4 #EndViolence #16Days
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What actions are necessary to work effectively at the intersections of violence against women and violence against children? Read more of the #ChildGauge2025 recommendations in the full research publication or the policy brief: bit.ly/4oqDxv4 #EndViolence #16Days
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What a valuable read for parents and young people all around the world. The Digital Abstinence Movement will come knocking. Best to start thinking how to preserve your data and social ties before they're taken away.
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
What a valuable read for parents and young people all around the world. The Digital Abstinence Movement will come knocking. Best to start thinking how to preserve your data and social ties before they're taken away.
Challenge to Australia social media ban for U-16s: rather than the ban, “bring us into safer spaces, with rules that work: age‑appropriate features, privacy‑first age assurance, and fast takedowns.”
Waited to get the court docs before reporting on the high court challenge to the social media ban.
They reveal an injunction will be sought against esafety, the minister and the govt to stop enforcement. And one of the teens is turning 16 before the ban.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
They reveal an injunction will be sought against esafety, the minister and the govt to stop enforcement. And one of the teens is turning 16 before the ban.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Teens seek urgent high court injunction to block Australian government’s social media ban
Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, both 15, are supported by a digital rights group led by NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Challenge to Australia social media ban for U-16s: rather than the ban, “bring us into safer spaces, with rules that work: age‑appropriate features, privacy‑first age assurance, and fast takedowns.”
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More seriously, looks like young people in Australia know how to read bona fide scientific research and are keen to exercise their internationally recognised human rights... Instead of silly abstinence, let's use science to make the internet an empowering place!
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 AM
More seriously, looks like young people in Australia know how to read bona fide scientific research and are keen to exercise their internationally recognised human rights... Instead of silly abstinence, let's use science to make the internet an empowering place!
Couldn't be a more timely launch of this #DigitalFutures4Children report later today as children’s rights come under increasing pressure in the digital environment (and indeed, everywhere). Looking forward to catching it online! www.lse.ac.uk/events/digit... @5rightsfound.bsky.social #ChildRights
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November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Couldn't be a more timely launch of this #DigitalFutures4Children report later today as children’s rights come under increasing pressure in the digital environment (and indeed, everywhere). Looking forward to catching it online! www.lse.ac.uk/events/digit... @5rightsfound.bsky.social #ChildRights
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📌📄 In case you missed it: Our Child Gauge 2025 poster. It explains key concepts & levers for change to #EndViolence against women & children. It also sets out recommendations for strengthening systems. Break the silos. Break the cycle. Keen to read more about this? 🔗 bit.ly/4oqDxv4
#ChildGauge2025
#ChildGauge2025
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
📌📄 In case you missed it: Our Child Gauge 2025 poster. It explains key concepts & levers for change to #EndViolence against women & children. It also sets out recommendations for strengthening systems. Break the silos. Break the cycle. Keen to read more about this? 🔗 bit.ly/4oqDxv4
#ChildGauge2025
#ChildGauge2025
I wrote something! “It is past time to move beyond campaigns to raise awareness of these forms of (school) violence, as important as they are to draw attention to the problem.” #safeschools #endviolence @childrensinstitute.bsky.social www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
ANALYSIS | Beyond punishment: Systematic solutions to end school violence | News24
Schools must transition from being environments that potentially reinforce violence into powerful platforms that disrupt it, writes Patrick Burton.
www.news24.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I wrote something! “It is past time to move beyond campaigns to raise awareness of these forms of (school) violence, as important as they are to draw attention to the problem.” #safeschools #endviolence @childrensinstitute.bsky.social www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
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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....