Julian Sefton-Green
Professor of New Media Education
Deakin University
Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 10:00-11:00
Venue: Pilestredet 48, Room S536
The seminar will raise a number of questions about the intentions behind and the success of recent legislation in Australia banning social media for young people under the age of 16. It will discuss the legislation’s influence on countries around the world and some of the conceptual and pragmatic issues arising from its design, implementation and evaluation.
To register: https://nettskjema.no/a/seminar-js-g
The deadline for signing up is 25 April
Julian Sefton-Green is on the international advisory board for the evaluation of the Social Media Minimum Age (SMMA) run by the office of eSafety in Australia. He is professor of new media education at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia , a visiting professor in the department of media and communications at London School of Economics & Political Science and a professor II at the Faculty of Education, University of Oslo. He is currently a chief investigator and program co-lead at the Australian Centre of Excellence researching the Digital Child. He has written on many aspects of media education, new technologies, creativity, digital cultures and informal learning and has authored, co-authored or edited 20+ books and spoken at 50+ conferences in 20 countries