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Latest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioEmpowerment, safety and equity: children's visions of rights-respecting digital futuresContributor(s): Dr Sakshi Ghai, Adam Ingle, Michael Murray, Professor Dylan Yamada-Rice | One in three internet users is a child, yet the digital world was not designed with children in mind. As we witness an acceleration of the development of technologies like generative AI, rapidly transforming children’s lives, tech regulation often prioritises speed over human and children’s rights. Yet the technology-related challenges children face and will face in coming years differ greatly worldwide.
What can we learn from engaging children from around the world in imagining what children’s digital lives might look like in the future and what c...2025-06-2158 min
The OII Podcast (Oxford Internet Institute)Screen time: the impact of the digital world, with Professor Andy Przybylski and Dr Sakshi GhaiHow the digital world is affecting society and individuals, and concerns around tech usage, with Professor Andy Przybylski (University of Oxford) and Dr Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics). In the inaugural episode of the OII Podcast, our experts discuss topics such as:
- The evidence behind how our wellbeing has been influenced by digital technologies
- The need to adopt a non-Western centric approach to research that incorporates the contextual nuances of those living in places like the Global South
- Whether the rise in digital technologies can help to break down some of the inequalities between the West...2024-10-1523 minThe OII Podcast (Oxford Internet Institute)Screen time: the impact of the digital world, with Professor Andy Przybylski and Dr Sakshi GhaiHow the digital world is affecting society and individuals, and concerns around tech usage, with Professor Andy Przybylski (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) and Dr Sakshi Ghai (London School of Economics). In the inaugural episode of the OII Podcast, our experts discuss topics such as:
- The evidence behind how our wellbeing has been influenced by digital technologies
- The need to adopt a non-Western centric approach to research that incorporates the contextual nuances of those living in places like the Global South
- Whether the rise in digital technologies can help to break down some of the inequalities...2024-10-1523 min
Everything Hertz141: Why we should diversify study samples (with Sakshi Ghai)We chat with Sakshi Ghai (University of Cambridge) about why we should diversify sample diversity and retire the Western, educated, rich, industrialized and democratic (WEIRD) dichotomy in the behavioral sciences
Links to stuff we discuss:
Sakshi's piece in Nature Human Behavior
Many Labs 2 paper
The ‘helicopter' research piece
Joseph Heinrich’s recent book, The WEIRDest People in the World
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The YIF PodcastS1E4: Against all odds: Shaping the early academic career | With Sakshi Ghai (PhD Candidate, Psychology, University of Cambridge) and Shivangi Pareek (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Yale University)Welcome to the fourth episode of The YIF Podcast - Against all odds: Shaping the early academic career, where we celebrate the inspiring journeys of our diverse alumni. The guests for this episode are Sakshi Ghai (YIF '15), PhD Candidate, Psychology, University of Cambridge, and Shivangi Pareek (YIF '13), PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Yale University. They will be in conversation with our host for Season 1, Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha (Founding Dean, YIF and ISB, Founder and Trustee, Ashoka University).2021-09-2155 min