PJ Vogt

I'd really never appreciated the absurdity of this. Every month, I skim past another idiotic story about a book ban fight at a library somewhere, some politician making hay about a children's book with a trans dad or something. We're fighting about libraries, as if libraries in 2025 are the average kid's go-to source of information.

Meanwhile, the smartphone that anybody over 13 needs to participate in the class group text also contains an infinite library of pro-anorexia guides, manosphere tutorials, BDSM misinformation. Conservative parents, progressive parents, most people have ideas about what they think is appropriate for kids and at what age.

Meanwhile, the smartphone that anybody over 13 needs to participate in the class group text also contains an infinite library of pro-anorexia guides, manosphere tutorials, BDSM misinformation. Conservative parents, progressive parents, most people have ideas about what they think is appropriate for kids and at what age.

Meanwhile, the smartphone that anybody over 13 needs to participate in the class group text also contains an infinite library of pro-anorexia guides, manosphere tutorials, BDSM misinformation. Conservative parents, progressive parents, most people have ideas about what they think is appropriate for kids and at what age.

Right now, though, if your kid is on the internet, they're effectively on their own. Which is not to suggest I know the answer to any of this. If there's some policy that could balance free speech online against the industrial smelting of our teenagers' egos, I'd support it. I just don't know that our current crop of politicians is going to find it.

Right now, though, if your kid is on the internet, they're effectively on their own. Which is not to suggest I know the answer to any of this. If there's some policy that could balance free speech online against the industrial smelting of our teenagers' egos, I'd support it. I just don't know that our current crop of politicians is going to find it.

Right now, though, if your kid is on the internet, they're effectively on their own. Which is not to suggest I know the answer to any of this. If there's some policy that could balance free speech online against the industrial smelting of our teenagers' egos, I'd support it. I just don't know that our current crop of politicians is going to find it.

But what I like about social studies, the reason we wanted to make a whole episode about it this week, is because I think most parents just don't fully know what their kids see on the internet. And a series like this, the reason it's valuable, it's not because of its craft or because of which side it supports in the great national phone debate.

But what I like about social studies, the reason we wanted to make a whole episode about it this week, is because I think most parents just don't fully know what their kids see on the internet. And a series like this, the reason it's valuable, it's not because of its craft or because of which side it supports in the great national phone debate.

But what I like about social studies, the reason we wanted to make a whole episode about it this week, is because I think most parents just don't fully know what their kids see on the internet. And a series like this, the reason it's valuable, it's not because of its craft or because of which side it supports in the great national phone debate.

It's valuable because a teenager and their parents can watch it together. And afterwards, they can just have a conversation about what they saw. What has the reaction been like to your work? Like, do you feel like it is being used as evidence in an argument? Do you feel like it's being used as the beginning of conversations? Like, how are you seeing it getting taken up?

It's valuable because a teenager and their parents can watch it together. And afterwards, they can just have a conversation about what they saw. What has the reaction been like to your work? Like, do you feel like it is being used as evidence in an argument? Do you feel like it's being used as the beginning of conversations? Like, how are you seeing it getting taken up?

It's valuable because a teenager and their parents can watch it together. And afterwards, they can just have a conversation about what they saw. What has the reaction been like to your work? Like, do you feel like it is being used as evidence in an argument? Do you feel like it's being used as the beginning of conversations? Like, how are you seeing it getting taken up?

Lauren had just been in Greece, where she'd screened the documentary for teenagers there.

Lauren had just been in Greece, where she'd screened the documentary for teenagers there.

Lauren had just been in Greece, where she'd screened the documentary for teenagers there.

I've been trying to understand how much the generations after me are experiencing an internet like the one I saw versus one that actually might be very different. And it's been interesting, like, in the research I've done for other stories involving teens, we've talked to academics. Privately, what they will often say is that

I've been trying to understand how much the generations after me are experiencing an internet like the one I saw versus one that actually might be very different. And it's been interesting, like, in the research I've done for other stories involving teens, we've talked to academics. Privately, what they will often say is that

I've been trying to understand how much the generations after me are experiencing an internet like the one I saw versus one that actually might be very different. And it's been interesting, like, in the research I've done for other stories involving teens, we've talked to academics. Privately, what they will often say is that

they're upset about how politicized talking about this stuff has become. Like that because teens and cell phones is a polarized issue, they feel like worried about saying the wrong thing, getting blown up online. I was wondering if you felt, as you talk about your film, do you feel sensitive to that?