(Re)Politicizing Digital Well-Being: Beyond User Engagements
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08199v1
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:55:33 GMT
- Title: (Re)Politicizing Digital Well-Being: Beyond User Engagements
- Authors: Niall Docherty and Asia J. Biega
- Abstract summary: We will reveal well-being to be a culturally specific and environmentally conditioned concept.
We will problematize user engagement as a universal proxy for well-being.
We hope to reinvigorate the issue of digital well-being measurement as a nexus point of political concern.
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- Abstract: The psychological costs of the attention economy are often considered through
the binary of harmful design and healthy use, with digital well-being chiefly
characterised as a matter of personal responsibility. This article adopts an
interdisciplinary approach to highlight the empirical, ideological, and
political limits of embedding this individualised perspective in computational
discourses and designs of digital well-being measurement. We will reveal
well-being to be a culturally specific and environmentally conditioned concept
and will problematize user engagement as a universal proxy for well-being.
Instead, the contributing factors of user well-being will be located in
environing social, cultural, and political conditions far beyond the control of
individual users alone. In doing so, we hope to reinvigorate the issue of
digital well-being measurement as a nexus point of political concern, through
which multiple disciplines can study experiences of digital ill as symptomatic
of wider social inequalities and (capitalist) relations of power.
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