Unrealistic standards that plagued girls are now hitting boys. Gen Z voices reveal what\u2019s in their feeds as experts unpack the dangerous messages shaping masculinity. <\/p>\n
Coming Thursday, June 25<\/p>\n
Episode 3 \u2013 Predatory Chatbots <\/p>\n
Big Tech shifts from attention to affection with unregulated chatbots. A tech expert and artist work to protect young people as bots begin disrupting real-world relationships. <\/p>\n
Coming Monday, June 29<\/p>\n
Episode 4 \u2013 Not a Love Story <\/p>\n
Porn is reshaping young people\u2019s experiences, and rough sex is becoming the norm. But one Dunedin school is tackling it head-on with a bold, student-led response. <\/p>\n
Coming Thursday, July 2<\/p>\n
Episode 5 \u2013 Technoference <\/p>\n
Social media distraction isn\u2019t just hurting teens \u2013 it\u2019s affecting parents and babies too. Dr Miriam McCaleb and Gemma McCaw share ways to push back and protect family connections. <\/p>\n
Coming Monday, July 6<\/p>\n
Episode 6 \u2013 Lessons from Australia <\/p>\n
Australian teens and experts discuss the impacts of the ban on social media for under-16s, highlighting important lessons for New Zealand should it choose to follow. <\/p>\n
Coming Thursday, July 9<\/p>\n
Under the Influence \u2013 related videos<\/p>\n
Nadia Maxwell explains to Ryan Bridge how many parents have no idea what their children are really watching online.<\/p>\n
Under the Influence is produced by Overactive Imagination for the NZ Herald. The series was made with support from NZ On Air and Screen Canterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrealistic standards that plagued girls are now hitting boys. Gen Z voices reveal what\u2019s in their feeds as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[579,19190,95,665,198,11519,537,246992,2881,6119,29163,11521,134,30689,2883,221,11946,7055,9388,1073,1885,12019,111,139,69,1642,22213,3766,384,4491,9979,1963,1072,213,4497,672,223,165,684,8238,416,3270,377,37458,4741,1079,80],"class_list":["post-493039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-addiction","tag-affects","tag-and","tag-around","tag-can","tag-causing","tag-crisis","tag-directorproducer","tag-explores","tag-faces","tag-generation","tag-harm","tag-health","tag-heralds","tag-hope","tag-how","tag-influence","tag-linked","tag-maxwell","tag-media","tag-mental","tag-nadia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-our","tag-parents","tag-people","tag-respond","tag-right","tag-series","tag-social","tag-sports","tag-start","tag-teens","tag-the","tag-their","tag-there","tag-under","tag-video","tag-we","tag-world","tag-worried","tag-young","tag-youth","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}