Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 21 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020) and Digital Media Use in Early Childhood: Birth to Six (Bloomsbury, 2024). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised the Child-friendly Governance Project, Child Helpline International, Council of Europe, European Commission, European Digital Media Observatory, European Parliament, International Telecommunications Union, OECD, Ofcom, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UK government and UNICEF. She has served as President of the International Communication Association, chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures for Children centre at LSE with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net