Over 11,000 Reads: Thank You for Supporting Digital Literacy and Inclusion open.substack.com/pub/digita… Link to the book: link.springer.com/book/10.10… cc @SpringerNature @SpringerEng

Are social media bans really the answer to keeping children safe online? Or are we mistaking account removal for safety? I’d love to hear your thoughts. #ChildOnlineProtection #DigitalPolicy #socialmediabans digitalserendipities.substac…

Drawing on years of work in child online protection, including with the ITU, I examine why social media bans alone are not enough and why safer design, accountability, digital literacy, and meaningful social connection matter just as much. spectrum.ieee.org/social-med… #kidsonline

Very happy to see my new poem “Safe Distance” in the September issue of IEEE Spectrum. A love poem written through the language of networks, fiber-optic cables, distance, and connection #poetry

If we remove one infrastructure of youth connection, what do we build in its place? My new essay on social media bans, youth, digital literacy, and meaningful child online protection: digitalserendipities.substac… #ChildOnlineProtection #DigitalPolicy #YouthWellbeing

AI agents are starting to talk to each other. Not as tools, as infrastructures. The issue isn’t alignment. It’s accountability. New Substack essay: Moltbook and the Rise of the AI-Generated Public Sphere. Join free: digitalserendipities.substac… #AIGovernance #AI #AIEthics

The exposure of powerful abuse networks is a reminder: child exploitation isn’t new, technology only amplifies it when accountability fails. On #SafeInternetDay, I reflect on this in my weekly Substack column: substack.com/home/post/p-187… #COP #childsafety

Global digital governance looks coherent on paper. It fractures in practice. I wrote a short reflection on #childonlineprotection, #TikTok, and why policy frameworks often fail at implementation. Read & subscribe digitalserendipities.substac… #DigitalGovernance #ChildOnlineProtection

My new peer-reviewed paper is out in Digital Society (@SpringerNature). “Navigating Child Online Protection in Indonesia: International Norms, Local Realities, and the TikTok Factor” #OpenAccess link.springer.com/article/10… #DigitalGovernance #ChildOnlineProtection #GlobalSouth

NPC livestreams on TikTok aren’t just play. They reveal digital labor, platform power, and technofeudalism. New Substack column after my Euronews Serbia interview digitalserendipities.substac… Inspired by the work of @yanisvaroufakis #NPC #TikTok #technofeudalism

New essay for World Children’s Day 2025. On how children grow up inside algorithms, and what we owe them: protection, digital literacy, and ethical tech by design. digitalserendipities.substac… #WorldChildrensDay #ChildSafety #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalInclusion

I'm at MethodsNet in Louvain-la-Neuve. Together w/ colleagues from @gesis_org I’ll co-facilitate an interactive panel: Bridging Methodological Divides: Collaborative Synergies Between Qualitative and Quantitative CSS.If you’ll be there, come say hello substack.com/home/post/p-172…

my recent interview on the Ready Living Podcast, I discussed why critical thinking is essential in today’s digital society, explored ways to build a more ethical internet. I had the opportunity to share a personal story about reclaiming my family history youtube.com/watch?v=UiaiabIZ…

I reflect on Netflix’s Adolescence and the urgent need for stronger #childonlineprotection. Drawing from my professional experience, I explore what we can do to keep children safe online #DigitalSafety #Adolescence #MentalHealth #OnlineSafety substack.com/@digitalserendi…

social media housekeeping, you can find me on: #Bluesky danicaradovanovic.bsky.socia…, #instagram instagram.com/danica.radovan…, and #mastodon mastodon.world/@danica

Finished successfully our interactive panel on interdisciplinary collab and roadblocks in the workflow, at @MethodsNET conference in Louvain-la-Neuve. Colleagues @GabriellaLapesa, @maxlinde_ and I had a wonderful time. Thanks to organisers & @gesis_org #scicomm