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Youth protection: Arcom calls on experts in youngsters' protection
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To keep pace with developments in Arcom's youth protection missions and objectives, the Authority has relied since 2005 on a committee of youngsters' experts, made up of professionals in direct contact with the world of childhood and adolescence.
Pediatricians, psychologists, representatives of institutions and associations, professionals in the youth entertainment and creation sector, researchers, etc. The committee supplies a forum for reflection, experience-sharing and dialogue on issues relating to the protection of youngsters from traditional and digital media.
The youngsters' expert committee: composition
The committee meets within the framework of the working group in charge of protecting minors,"Protection des publics et diversité de la société française", chaired by Laurence Pécaut-Rivolier, a member of Arcom's board of directors.
The committee is renewed by Arcom every two years.
Since its renewal in January 2024, it has comprised eighteen specialists in childhood, adolescence, the audiovisuel world and digital.
Olivier ANDRIEU-GÉRARD
Coordinator of the "media-digital uses" unit at the Union nationale des associations familiales (UNAF) (French national union of family associations)
Justine ATLAN
Managing Director, e-Enfance
Agnès BACRIE
Elementary school principal
Grégoire BORST
Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Cognitive Neuroscience (Université Paris Cité)
Director, Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'éducation de l'enfant (LaPsyDÉ-CNRS)
François-Marie CARON
Pediatrician
Association Française de Pédiatrie Ambulatoire, Expert for Mpédia.fr
Béatrice COPPER-ROYER
Child and adolescent psychologist
Éric DELEMAR
Children's Ombudsman for the Rights Defender
Sabine DUFLO
Psychologist and family therapist in child psychiatry (medical-psychological center for children and adolescents, and specialized consultation on screen addiction). Attached to EPSM G. Daumezon)
Rose-Marie FARINELLA
Media and information educator, former journalist and school teacher
Christel GONNARD
Screenwriter and writing director
Azmina GOULAMALY
Director, Pipangaï animation studio
Paul JACQUIN
Pediatrician (adolescent medicine)
Emmanuel MARTIN
Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Ubisoft
Amélia MATAR
Founder of Colori
Ovidie
Director, journalist and author
Georges PICHEROT
Pediatrician, former Head of Pediatrics at Nantes University Hospital
Thomas ROHMER
Chairman, Observatoire de la parentalité et de l'éducation numérique (OPEN)
Nicolas VIGNOLLES
General Delegate, Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs (SELL)
Committee activity and action
Created by Arcom in 2005, the Young Audiences Expert Committee's mission is to issue notices concerning audiovisual content, and to contribute to Arcom's forward-looking vision of the challenges involved in protecting young audiences, particularly those related to new uses and digital developments. The committee's opinion is advisory in nature.
The committee is regularly convened by Arcom, notably as part of the working group responsible for protecting youngsters.
In particular, the experts contributed to the Authority's reflections on :
- the introduction of regulations to protect children under three from the effects of television;
- programmes for younger viewers and ratings;
- successive communication campaigns on children's signs and the use of screens;
- the advice given in the "Learn to use screens" leaflet (available for downloading in pdf format below);
- the introduction of regulations governing audiovisual broadcasts of mixed martial arts (MMA) fights.
Learn to use screens" leaflet
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- in french
If necessary, the opinion of one or more committee members can be sought. For example, on the occasion of the signing of the protocol of commitments to prevent the exposure of minors to online pornography, Béatrice Copper-Royer, a child and adolescent psychologist, and Grégoire Borst, professor of developmental psychology and educational cognitive neuroscience (Université Paris Cité), presented their analyses of the harmful effects of pornographic content on the psychological development of minors.
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