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Technology ethics assessment: Politicising the ‘Socratic approach’

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 454-466, April 2023., 2023
Abstract That technologies may raise ethical issues is now widely recognised. The ‘responsible innovation’ literature – as well as, to a lesser extent, the applied ethics and bioethics literature – has responded to the need for ethical reflection on technologies by developing a number of tools and approaches to facilitate such reflection. Some of these
Robert Sparrow
wiley   +1 more source

Building for Joy in the Digital World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
User experience of digital platforms and technologies tends to be quite ‘thin’, characterized by low-quality engagements such as addictive tendencies or browsing on autopilot.
George, Jennifer   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Impact of Facebook Affordances on Doomscrolling Behaviors during the Relational Dissolution Process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The affordances provided by social networking sites (SNSs) impact how different social media platforms are used. Facebook has unique affordances such as ease of use, community, information seeking, escapism, and common interests that impact Facebook use.
Williams, Emma
core   +1 more source

MIIND and HEART: Measuring and designing for thicker qualities of user experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
In this paper, we discuss our interdisciplinary approach to developing a new framework for evaluating how design elements of digital technologies interact with joy in user experience.
George, Jennifer   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Stichwort: doomscrolling

open access: yesmerz | medien + erziehung, 2022
Doomscrolling bezeichnet das exzessive Suchen nach und Konsumieren von negativen Nachrichten im Netz. Das englische Wort doom kann mit Verhängnis oder Unglück übersetzt werden, während es beim Scrollen um die Bewegung auf einer Internetseite oder um das Durchgehen eines Feeds in Sozialen Medien wie Facebook, Instagram oder TikTok geht.
openaire   +1 more source

Doomscrolling or Joyscrolling? A Study of English Lexical Innovations of 2020-2022 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The years 2020-2022 experienced a number of world-shifting events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a global economic recession, the racial justice movement, the US presidential election, and extreme climate conditions. Since no social phenomenon can avoid
Ivantsiv, Oryslava   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Generalized anxiety disorder and social media addiction relationships: The role of psychological resilience, doomscrolling and cyberchondria severity [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija
The recent increase in social media use has attracted attention towards its interaction with mental health. This study examined the relationships between generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social media addiction (SMA), psychological resilience ...
Türk Kurtça Tuğba
doaj   +1 more source

Pandemic Genres: Processing the COVID-19 Pandemic through Electronic Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This essay surveys works of electronic literature and digital art initiated in the earliest months of the pandemic that are reflective of the specific conditions and anxieties of the period.
Nacher, Anna   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Brief exposure to social media during the COVID-19 pandemic: Doom-scrolling has negative emotional consequences, but kindness-scrolling does not.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
People often seek out information as a means of coping with challenging situations. Attuning to negative information can be adaptive because it alerts people to the risks in their environment, thereby preparing them for similar threats in the future. But
Kathryn Buchanan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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