CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE SAFE ONLINE…
We are two individual researchers and consultants dedicated to conducting, gathering and communicating research about a safe, social and sustainably connected online environment for children and young people. Tech&Childhood communicates critical analysis’, reports, articles and news about growing up in an online world ruled by private tech companies.
Ben Tarnoff, 2022
“The internet was remade for the purpose of profit maximization, which turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism.”
MEET THE FOUNDERS
Mie Oehlenschlager is a tech ethics and policy expert advising private and public actors both nationally and internationally (2022-2024).
Appointed to an independent external expert group to support the Government’s work on setting the framework for Big Tech in Denmark and the EU (2022-2024).
Appointed member of The Danish Council of Ethics (2022-2025).
Appointed member of the Danish well being Commission (2023-2024)
Author of a number of analyses and reports including "Big Tech - Soft Power" (July 2023 with DataEthics.eu), "Online games gamble with children's data" (April 2021 with DataEthics and IDA) and "Green Paper on initiatives to protect children online" (December 2021 with Digitalt Ansvar) and various articles. Expert advicer to the The US Future of Tech Commission and former writing member of the Danish DJØF's TechDK Commission.
Independent consultant for the non profit association Digitalt Ansvar.
Years of professional experience with Strategic Communications, Campaigning, CSR and Public Affairs. M.A., Modern Culture and Cultural Communication (University of Copenhagen, 2008), B.A. Comparative Literature (University of Copenhagen, 2003). With DIS since 2018.
Katrine K. Pedersen is a PhD fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Her research addresses a pressing and globally relevant issue: how digital child culture is increasingly used in ways that do not serve the best interests of the child.
Appointed by the European Commission as an Expert Member of the EU Knowledge HUB (2025–2029)
She was appointed by UNICEF Denmark as a deputy member of the Influentnævn, a national advisory board.
Author of several books e.g. The Digital Influenceable (Danish title: De Digitalt Udsatte, 2018), as well as Counterculture (Modkultur, 2012). Her work has been featured in international media such as ABC News, and she is regularly consulted as an expert commentator in Danish media.
She is particularly focused on the grey zones where influencers blur the lines between product promotion, ideology, and politics—reshaping the conditions for communication, persuasion, and manipulation. Her work highlights how difficult it has become to distinguish between commercial, political, and cultural expression in today’s algorithmic environments.