Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being: Reimagining Online Life After Lockdown.
Sci Eng Ethics
; 27(3): 32, 2021 05 19.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1235765
ABSTRACT
Global lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have offered many people first-hand experience of how their daily online activities threaten their digital well-being. This article begins by critically evaluating the current approaches to digital well-being offered by ethicists of technology, NGOs, and social media corporations. My aim is to explain why digital well-being needs to be reimagined within a new conceptual paradigm. After this, I lay the foundations for such an alternative approach, one that shows how current digital well-being initiatives can be designed in more insightful ways. This new conceptual framework aims to transform how philosophers of technology think about this topic, as well as offering social media corporations practical ways to design their technologies in ways that will improve the digital well-being of users.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pandemics
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Social Media
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci Eng Ethics
Journal subject:
Ethics
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S11948-021-00307-8
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